| 1 |
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 |
>>> Is there a better way? If not, is there an easy way to set up that |
| 3 |
>>> VPN connection? I've always read that OpenVPN is a bear and I've been |
| 4 |
>>> lucky enough to avoid needing it all this time. |
| 5 |
>> |
| 6 |
>> Bear, in what sense? Slow, hard? |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
> Hard. It seems like a waste to become acquainted with OpenVPN for |
| 10 |
> just this purpose. I've been using Gentoo on all of my systems for |
| 11 |
> nearly 15 years and haven't needed it otherwise. |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
Learning how to set up a VPN connection, which is probably what they |
| 15 |
are asking you to do, is not a waste of time. KVM or some variation of |
| 16 |
it is the standard way to do this (though I very much detest it, as |
| 17 |
each server is essentially preinstalled with unmodifiable firmware |
| 18 |
that has control over your physical hardware). |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
>> I've been using it for years and I love it. It's definitely easier to |
| 22 |
>> set up than IPSec. All my DNS (and some other UDP stuff) goes over |
| 23 |
>> OpenVPN. At times I even had a "ssh -D" SOCKS proxy on the other end, |
| 24 |
>> so double encryption, with no slowdown to notice. |
| 25 |
>> |
| 26 |
>> Now if SoftLayer or the warty tools they provide want a particular kind |
| 27 |
>> of VPN, that would be real problem. |
| 28 |
> |
| 29 |
> |
| 30 |
> Potential rabbit hole. |
Archives