WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>wrote:

> On 07/07/2009 10:36 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
>
>>
>> I can think of some work arounds:
>>
>>  Thanks, but...
>
>> 1) Run OpenVPN on the home server and redirect the ports on Tomato.  I'm
>> not familiar enough with OpenVPN to know if this is possible.
>>
> I've gone full OpenVPN retard.  I tried setting it up, but I don't have it
> working at all.  Most likely some problem with routing that I'm unable to
> figure out.  I've spent part of the weekend trying to figure out what was
> going on, then decided my time was better spent doing something else and
> just find an already-existing box that ease my configuration issues.
>
>> 2) Use SSH redirects to the server.  I've seen this with batch scripts on
>> windows.  On Linux, I've used SSHFS.
>>
>>  That would be fine for me.  But the solution has to be wife-friendly.
>  Anything more complicated than "double-click this, enter your password, and
> your home directory magically appears" and its usefulness disappears.  There
> are other services I'd want to access like my squeezecenter server, so
> having a list of SSH redirects becomes a bit of a burden to maintain.
>

I've seen a batch file solution with a local lmhosts file swapped in/out.
It supported sales guys onto a network with a double ssh gateway.  I'm sure
your wife is at least an order of magnitude more clued then the sales guys.
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