[TriLUG] OpenVPN for Home

[stan briggs]

all,

i confess to not being overly-concerned about security. at least that's what
my security guys are always telling me. anyway, i've never used VPN software
to connect to home or office from off-site. i've always used ssh/putty and
the tunneling that they provide.
1. is this just semantics and i really am using a VPN?
2. anyone care to toss out pros and cons about using ssh/putty?

thanks,
stan

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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Josh Vickery
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:45 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OpenVPN for Home

Its nice and easy to get through firewalls, requiring only a single UDP (TCP
is possible, but not recommended) port be exposed on the server side.  I've
been quite happy with it.

Josh

On 10/10/06, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
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>  > Is OpenVPN the best for setting up a VPN connection?
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> Dunno.
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>  > Is anyone using it to connect home for secure surfing  > and e-mail 
> transfers?
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> Yes.
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