I use a VPN on my laptop when I am away from my home, well actually the laptop is even configured to use the VPN even when at home and the laptop is using our wireless. It's very handy and allows me to route everything through my home network which I consider secure.
I do not use a paid solution I use openvpn that I have set up on a server at my house. The authentication is handled using certificates combined with passwords. I do not run any GUI apps over the connection but have my email client configured to connect to a private email server on my lan, my private git server, ssh. Once connected to the VPN my DNS servers are also set to use a personal bind server that is on my private network. Early on I did run into some issues at some hotels that used the same private network that I use a home but with some routing configuration in the VPN client the problem was easily fixed. If you use tools/apps that do things based on your location they will not work as expected because the location will always be where your VPN is but this doesn't bother me because I tend to block that stuff as much as possible anyway. This has worked very well for me for years and was well worth the small amount of time that it took to get it configured. I also have a VPN set up on a work machine just in case my home connection is down. This doesn't allow me to use the resources on my home network but it allows me to route things securely through a server that I have total control over which should never be down. -- David On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 11:50 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm not traveling out-of-state as much as I used to and I'm curious > when a > VPN would be advantageous for a sole practitioner professional > services > provider who would access the office LAN for mail and files when not > sitting > at the desk there. All thoughts welcome. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
