[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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