[PLUG] VPN Suggestions?

AthlonRob athlonrob at axpr.net
Mon Feb 10 21:47:01 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:26, Terry Layne wrote:

> What's wrong with ssh when you just need a shell and vnc when you want a
> desktop?  The Windows VNC viewer works well enough.  You'd just need to open
> 22 and 580n, 590n, on your firewall (assuming you start vnc with vncserver :n.)

Well, that isn't encrypted at all, for one thing.  To encrypt VNC you
have to forward ports over SSH and, IMHO, that is a kludge.

Besides, getting this to work would be very interesting... I've never
played with VPNs before.  :-)

Rob





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