From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERFRD-0003my-4e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:48:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9GKkOiW017495; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:46:24 GMT Received: from ptb-relay04.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9GKgjKf014656 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:42:45 GMT Received: from [80.229.169.140] (helo=kenny.chepstow.djnauk.co.uk) by ptb-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1ERFN3-0007HT-11 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:44:41 +0100 Received: from [10.0.1.11] (laptop.wireless.djnauk.co.uk [10.0.1.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kenny.chepstow.djnauk.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D28898A8 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:44:24 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4352BBA8.9090707@djnauk.co.uk> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:44:24 +0100 From: Jonathan Wright User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050814) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet References: <49bf44f10510160959n7407c97bj882784795fa2a9e8@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10510161101q42631857h9fbfc36f8d241799@mail.gmail.com> <200510161313.34724.john@jolet.net> In-Reply-To: <200510161313.34724.john@jolet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3390cf86-e842-4e22-b64c-82422156a403 X-Archives-Hash: ad26e5521ee8108e88fb282fa3ff0ac2 John Jolet wrote: >>Basically I have a network back home with a couple Gentoo systems >>connected and I'd like to have ssh (and maybe vnc) access to them from >>my Gentoo laptop no matter where I am. What do you think? > > if you just need ssh, you don't need a vpn, just a port forward on your > router. for vnc, I'd use openvpn. Why do though all the hassle of setting up a VPN when you can use SSH to provide a secure tunnel into the network and use that instead? Works fine for me. # ssh -L5900:hostname:5900 username@hostname.tld # vncviewer localhost:0 -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 1.68, 0.87, 0.33 -- "People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay." ~ Perry King -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list