[PLUG] VPN from Mac to Linux

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Sep 12 14:44:13 UTC 2006


On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> Now I want to be able to do some admin on the box remotely, without 
> driving from Beaverton to Gresham.  I admin 2 other Linux boxes 
> remotely through OpenVPN tunnels drilled from those machines to my 
> server.
> 
> There is an OpenVPN client for Mac OSX, the TUN interface for which 
> seems to break when Apple upgrades OS-X.  Their "natural" VPN seems 
> to be a flavor of PPTP (with IPSec?  Not sure, still learning).  
> The Mac can also drill a PPP connection over an SSH tunnel, 
> apparently.  While I don't want to open up more incoming ports on my 
> server, and support a second protocol for VPN, I also don't want to 
> fight a mostly-proprietary operating system to keep the connection 
> going after OS upgrades.
> 
> So this is a judgment question, for folks that do this kind of thing 
> more often:  Which approach is wisest from the reliability and 
> security standpoint: (1) OpenVPN, (2) PPTP, (3) SSH/PPP ?

I'm curious: does standard ssh not meet your needs?

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