On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is there a better way? If not, is there an easy way to set up that >>> VPN connection? I've always read that OpenVPN is a bear and I've been >>> lucky enough to avoid needing it all this time. >> >> Bear, in what sense? Slow, hard? > > > Hard. It seems like a waste to become acquainted with OpenVPN for > just this purpose. I've been using Gentoo on all of my systems for > nearly 15 years and haven't needed it otherwise. >
Learning how to set up a VPN connection, which is probably what they are asking you to do, is not a waste of time. KVM or some variation of it is the standard way to do this (though I very much detest it, as each server is essentially preinstalled with unmodifiable firmware that has control over your physical hardware). > >> I've been using it for years and I love it. It's definitely easier to >> set up than IPSec. All my DNS (and some other UDP stuff) goes over >> OpenVPN. At times I even had a "ssh -D" SOCKS proxy on the other end, >> so double encryption, with no slowdown to notice. >> >> Now if SoftLayer or the warty tools they provide want a particular kind >> of VPN, that would be real problem. > > > Potential rabbit hole.
