Protecting an open VPN connection from a local home LAN

From: -Lone_Wolf- (lone_wolfs_den_at_CLOTHEShotmail.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:47:29 GMT

Yesterday I opened my firewall only to notice repeated attempts to my VPN
listening service. I took a screen capture and then locked out the VPN. When
I looked back at the log it showed 892 attempted connections (I assume
he/she was trying to crack the password) in the hour for which the log went
back (and presumably much longer).

So here is my question...

I have taken an old PC (Win98) and turned it into a VPN gateway to my LAN.
There is a NAT Router and all connections to the open VPN ports are directed
to the new Gateway. I have set up the Win98 box to always log out with a
very good password but I am not too sure this will be enough?

So to hack in one needs to beat the VPN password, beat the Win98 password
then open another (password protected) VPN connection on the Win98 Machine
to any of my other PC's.

Do you think this is unwarranted protection, not enough protection, or
flawed in theory?

Thank you

John

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