We are developing on a server with a client whose network does not have a VPN and restricts access to the server by a whitelist IP list. Many of our team members do not have static IP addresses as they are fairly mobile and many are working from their homes that do not have an ISP that will provide them with a static IP address.
I was thinking there may be a way for us to connect through a VPN and I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a VPN service that would allow our team members to connect to that would in turn have a dedicated IP address that we could put on the server’s IP whitelist thus allowing access.
We looked into something like Hamachi but were not sure if that would be the most secure solution as it, to my understanding, would need to be running on the server as well as on each team member’s PC.
I’ve also looked into several online VPN services but they seem mostly geared toward individuals who want to browse the web and hide their IP. Thank you for any suggestions and solutions to our problem.
Answer
A VPN will join you to the network that hosts it. This means that you can then be part of the internal network and bypass needing a whitelist for the server. Having an in-house VPN would probably be the best option, and as HopelessN00b put it, most big vendors will have a VPN appliance.
That said, with what you’re asking for (ie, a single external IP), it sounds like you’re looking for a proxy or gateway. There’s a lot of proxies available. I don’t personally use them, so I can’t recommend any good services. However, how secure these are is something else entirely. There may be some business-oriented proxies that can give you a secured IP, but again I haven’t used them.
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