I’ve been considering a different firewall router for the home network, and am looking at the this excellent article come the instructions and three key tidbits:
It won’t work if your Mac is behind a NAT router.
You configure the router under ‘PPTP server’ and not VPN server.
Enter the username/password into ‘Internet Connect’ and you’re good to go.
If you’re lucky enough to have OSX server, a VPN server is built in. I’m not.
Hmm, looks like the RV042 is ~$170 as of 6/07. Not bad. It can do 5 PPTP connections at once, which’d be fine for me. It’d be nice to be able to print from offsite sometimes, and SSH tunnels are a PITA.