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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# vncviewer localhost:0
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up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 1.68, 0.87, 0.33
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