Mikkel wrote:
> But as I have said, I prefer openvpn -
> it makes me feel that the machine in Italy is really close to me!
> Also I find it easier to use, eg with KMail/dovecot ,
> though that is probably just a reflection of my knowledge/ignorance.
I guess I am not seeing what one has to do with the other. When I
make an openvpn connection from my laptop back to my home system, I
connect to
foo.bar.com where
foo.bar.com points to the dynamic IP
address of my home system. I could also use the IP address instead
of the host name. If you have openvpn set up correctly, it does not
care about the IP address, or host name on each end - it just cares
about the encryption keys. I have ssh set up the same way. (You can
try all day with user name/password and not get in.)
Yes, I'm probably being naive, or maybe just ignorant.
OpenVPN makes me feel that all the machines are in the same LAN
(which I suppose they are),
while two machines linked by ssh seems somehow more remote.
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