On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Mike Garton wrote:
> SSH(Secure Shell), is simply a secure method of file sharing. If you Actually, to disagree, SSH is an encryption layer for TCP/IP. You can use it to transfer files (Secure CP, Secure FTP), to connect to machines (Secure SHell) or to just encrypt any protocol (SSH Tunnelling). I think you can set up a basic VPN style thing using it, but it's not a common thing to do when FreeSwan/IPSec and things exist. Plus as you said, it's point to point rather than network based. > on top of a monthly charge to your ISP for a static address. You can probably avoid the need for the static IP using one of the dyndns services, or just accepting that your dynamic IP rarely changes (Insight for example seem to stay pretty constant). Once a year or so you'll notice a change and need to reconfigure. A much bigger deal is that Insight may get pissy that you're doing VPN in that direction and claim you have to upgrade to a business account. On Rex's tech-savvy one. Bet you can create it for 'free' with an old box with two network cards in and a Linux install. Might be able to find a Linux distribution just for VPN routing, or it might be built into some of the out-of-the-box router installs like Smoothwall. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
