SSH tunnel question

Neil Joseph Schelly neil at jenandneil.com
Wed Feb 27 21:52:47 EST 2008


On Wednesday 27 February 2008 21:25, Ben Scott wrote:
>   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?

I didn't interpret the OP's question that he wanted to SSH into the remote 
machine.  I interpreted it as he wanted to be able to access his machine 
(didn't think he said how) and that he was intending to use SSH and port 
forwarding to do it.

OpenVPN is not hard (certainly not as hard as you make it out to be) and can 
be done without knowing much about routing/firewalling if he's just 
connecting two machines together.  As I said, I'm sure it's written up in a 
quick how-to somewhere and I even offered to write up the config files for it 
if he was so inclined to ask.

>  Meanwhile, OpenVPN gets you... what, exactly? 

If you don't assume he only wants SSH, perhaps he also wanted to be able to 
visit the web server running on the remote machine, or some other service.  
It sure is easier when you can just connect to the machine as if it were a 
local machine sitting next to you.  I just offered an option that to me, 
sounded easier than all the port-forwarding in SSH over reverse SSH 
connections with port forwarding, etc...
-N


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