Fantasy Grounds - Port Forwarding - Transparent Op
  • Fantasy Grounds - Port Forwarding and a "transparent" OpenVPN setup
  • General
    • Introduction - F.G.Comms
    • GM's machine barriers
    • Internet connection barriers
    • Some NO-GO Situations
    • VPN solutions
  • Proposed Solution
    • "Transparent" OpenVPN-based Port Forwarding
    • Tools
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Setup process overview
  • Local setup - Step-by-step
    • Step 0 : Preparation
    • Step 1 : OpenVPN + Easy-RSA & "new-PKI"
    • Step 2 : Create your own PKI
    • Step 3 : Setup OpenVPN connections
  • AWS Setup - Click-by-Click
    • Step 4 : Your AWS environment
    • 4.1-Creating the IAM Role
    • 4.2-Choosing the AWS Region
    • 4.3-Creating the S3 bucket
    • 4.4-Virtual Private Cloud - Default VPC
    • 4.5-Creating an AWS Key Pair
    • 4.6-Creating an AWS Security Group
    • 4.7-Filling the bucket
    • 4.8-Building the Launch Template
  • Transfer & First Test
    • Step 5 : Transfer to S3
    • Step 6 : Launch time !
    • Step 7 : Connect, test, fix glitches
    • Step 8 : Destroy/"Terminate" after use
  • Use your server
    • Regular Usage Pattern
  • Simultaneous FG games / 1 VPN Server
    • Lifting the "1 GM at-a-time" restriction
    • FGU vs. FGC networking
    • VPNs for both FGC + FGU (LAN mode)
  • Upgrading our setup for "N-at-a-time", FGC/FGU
    • Untitled
  • Appendixes
    • Acronyms and definitions
    • AWS acronyms
    • AWS admin user + API access key
    • AWS, DNS, DDNS, CRL...
    • Possible (?) developments
  • Links
    • Fantasy Grounds Web
    • Fantasy Grounds Discord
    • FG College Web
    • FG College Discord
    • FG College KB
    • Our "EU" Discord
    • OpenVPN
    • AWS
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  1. Simultaneous FG games / 1 VPN Server

VPNs for both FGC + FGU (LAN mode)

Since FGU-LAN mode networking is mostly the same as FGC networking with the UDP/TCP transport as only difference, we are able to support either or both in our extended "N-at-a-time" setup.

With our current OpenVPN setup (with a "/24" subnet), we can manage up to approximately 60 certificates/connections.

For each GM certificate/connection

including the initially created single/time-shared one (my-fg-ovpn-dm01)

We'll :

  • reserve 1 VPN private IP address (our initial "my-fg-ovpn-dm01" connection has the ".6" private IP in the VPN subnet, so : 10.10.10.6 in our example)

  • choose to support (= implement transparent port forwarding for) :

    • only FGC (on a TCP port) : like we we did previously for my-fg-ovpn-dm01

    • only FGU-LAN mode (on a UDP port)

    • both FGC (on a TCP port) and FGU-LAN mode (on a UDP port)

...to be continued...

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