[Solved] eBlocker in combination with a SINA workstation?

Posted by: @paladium

which uses VPN to establish a connection with a SINA L3 box

I‘m not aware about SINA and guess it‘s a VPN gateway.

Anyway, if the connection is encrypted via VPN, eBlocker can not check /decrypt the packets and is useless.

PC-SINA-eBlocker-Internet will not work:

So eBlocker needs to sit before(!) SINA box in your network, where traffic is not encrypted still (https is OK if eBlocker‘s cert is installed in client):

PC-eBlocker-SINA-Internet is Ok and works.

if SINA is a standard OpenVPN gateway, you maybe want to switch to eBlocker fully. eBlocker can act as an OpenVPN gateway and has the advantage that each client can use a different VPN-provider in parallel ( i.e. pc1 = VPN1, pc2 = VPN2, pc3=Tor, pc4 = no vpn ... add more - this even works for IoT / terminal less clients, FireStick, etc).

Just double checked on the secunet site: „Die SINA L3 Boxen verbinden Behörden- oder Firmennetze über das Internet“. „SINA L3 connects governmental and businesses to the Internet“.?.?

I‘m not sure where you are at - but this is not a typical setting for consumers.

eBlocker is for home usage! 

In home LAN eBlocker acts as the VPN or Tor gateway as discussed above and there is no need for extra VPN clients/gateways.

For firitzbox 7490 check this https://eblocker.org/de/magazin/manuelle-konfiguration-mit-der-fritzbox/  (German)

THX!

Hello Random,

thank you very much for your replies. I am using a SINA workstation @home in my home network. So SINA establishes a secure connection to a certain network via vpn.

I think I'll just give it a try and do as you suggested. So I put the eBlocker between the Routeer and SINA.

And if it won't work, then I have at least learned something, no harm done! 😉 

I will give you a wrap up, as soon as I know more.