internet -- openvpn linux server (pub IP && pri IP) -- windows 2008 web server (pri IP) external -- firewall -- internal obj: you want to use web, you need to connect to openvpn 1st and openvpn only provide certain service (ex vpn only) and it allow only certain IP ssh to it. Q: real example is working on 2 ec2 A: 1. create 1 private IP pri-ec2 windows 2008 server 172.31.46.210 (no public IP) 2. create 1 public IP pub-ec2 windows 2008 server 54.249.25.250 172.31.33.9 @pub-ec2 i can mstsc to pri-ec2, since 172.31.0.0/16 networking is OK