FC6 VPN

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 11:55 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:

> But it is possible to use SSH either as a "poor man's" VPN, or as a
> "sort-of" VPN. I've never done a full VPN over SSH, but I'd start by
> reading http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ppp-ssh/index.html. The advantage of a SSH
> VPN is that SSH tends to be a lot less picky about the sort of network
> connections it gets than many VPNs, and SSH itself is easier to set up.
> Disadvantages include that SSH is supposed to be a poor transport for IP
> packets, and that if the SSH connection drops, so do all communications.
> 
> You might get on better with port-forwarding. This can be as simple as
> ssh -L 5900:192.168.1.55:5901 vncuser at jimdouglas.example.com
> This connects you to a computer called jimdouglas.example.com, logs you
> in as vncuser (through a password or private key), and creates a tunnel
> between port 5900 on your machine and port 5901 on 192.168.1.55 on the
> same local network as jimdouglas.example.com (it might or might not be
> the same computer as jimdouglas.example.com). That then allows you to
> connect a VNC viewer to port 5900 on your own machine, and log into
> 192.168.1.55.
> 
> It works very well for simple one-port protocols like VNC. It can be
> more of a challenge to get it to work with SMB or NFS (usually I don't
> bother and just sftp what I need).
> 
> The advantage of this is that it's easy to set up SSH and be sure it's
> going to work, and then it's practical to set up tunnels as needed
> remotely.

I used to use ssh and cipe to tunnel into my office machine, is this
like that? Ric

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