[TriLUG] OpenVPN for Home

[Eric H Christensen]

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Stan,
Just from my point of view a VPN will link ALL of your ports to the
connected network so it will be just like being at your home network.
Using SSH/PuTTY will only do a select number of ports and you have to
setup more (IMHO).

Eric


stan briggs wrote:
> all,
> 
> i confess to not being overly-concerned about security. at least that's what
> my security guys are always telling me. anyway, i've never used VPN software
> to connect to home or office from off-site. i've always used ssh/putty and
> the tunneling that they provide.
> 1. is this just semantics and i really am using a VPN?
> 2. anyone care to toss out pros and cons about using ssh/putty?
> 
> thanks,
> stan
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Josh Vickery
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:45 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OpenVPN for Home
> 
> Its nice and easy to get through firewalls, requiring only a single UDP (TCP
> is possible, but not recommended) port be exposed on the server side.  I've
> been quite happy with it.
> 
> Josh
> 
> On 10/10/06, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>>  > Is OpenVPN the best for setting up a VPN connection?
>>
>> Dunno.
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>>  > Is anyone using it to connect home for secure surfing  > and e-mail 
>> transfers?
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>> Yes.
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>> Alan
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