SSH tunnel question

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly
<neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:
>  Well, unless you're stuck on SSH for one reason or another, I'd approach this
>  with OpenVPN.  It will be a little more seamless when it's setup.

  Assuming that the OP is only interested in SSH'ing into his work PC
-- which is, after all, what he asked for -- is OpenVPN really better?
 Now you have to worry about configuring and maintaining another
daemon and set of crypto keys (not hard, perhaps, but still something
more than before), understanding IP addressing and routing between the
two nodes/nets, and firewalling off the OpenVPN tunnel as appropriate.
 Meanwhile, OpenVPN gets you... what, exactly?  :)  I guess OpenVPN
would mean one no longer has to specify the port number in the
~/.ssh/config file, but that doesn't seem worth the effort.

  Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of OpenVPN.  I set it up at work
to provide users remote access to the corporate net.  I just don't see
a benefit here.  Hammer myopia, and all that.

-- Ben