SSH tunnel question

[Paul Lussier]

"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly
> <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:

>>  It's thinking like that that means my wife can't print an email
>>  when she logs onto her work VPN network to check email or enter
>>  hours into their system.  It's your network to do what you want
>>  with it, but I just wanted to vent that your administration method
>>  would annoy the hell out of me.
>
> FWIW: That (forcing all traffic over the VPN when the VPN is up) is
> generally done because a VPN connection is a network connection.

Just out of curiosity, given that I don't have much VPN experience
(I've always opted to use ssh instead), couldn't you just specify an
interface alias like eth0:foo for the VPN to use, leaving in-tact your
normal network config?

Granted, it's tougher to do that sort of thing in environments like
Windows, but assuming all the world is running a decent UN*X like
environment for the moment... :)

-- 
Seeya,
Paul