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>> Is there a better way? If not, is there an easy way to set up that |
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>> VPN connection? I've always read that OpenVPN is a bear and I've been |
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>> lucky enough to avoid needing it all this time. |
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> Bear, in what sense? Slow, hard? |
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Hard. It seems like a waste to become acquainted with OpenVPN for |
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just this purpose. I've been using Gentoo on all of my systems for |
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nearly 15 years and haven't needed it otherwise. |
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> I've been using it for years and I love it. It's definitely easier to |
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> set up than IPSec. All my DNS (and some other UDP stuff) goes over |
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> OpenVPN. At times I even had a "ssh -D" SOCKS proxy on the other end, |
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> so double encryption, with no slowdown to notice. |
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> Now if SoftLayer or the warty tools they provide want a particular kind |
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> of VPN, that would be real problem. |
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Potential rabbit hole. |
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- Grant |
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