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Hi Yang going back to your original messages Yang schrieb: > Hi, I'd like to have home access to my work LAN, which is behind a > firewall. What I currently do is set up a remote ssh tunnel from work: > > ssh -R 8822:localhost:22 homeusername@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Then to access from home, I do: > > ssh -p 8822 workusername@localhost > > >From this point on, I can similarly create other ssh tunnels. The > problem is that this approach requires creating a tunnel for each > unique (host, port) pair, which is getting to be very tedious. I'm > hoping VPNs can help me out here. Ideally, any packets I send to > 172.24._._ (the work LAN) from my home computer will be routed through > my work box and reach the appropriate (host, port) at work. > This is the easy part, but routing the packets back from that host is the challenge. SSH tunnels do that by proxying. If you want to do the same with a VPN tunnel then either you will have to tell those hosts which way to go, because your traffic is not masqueraded by default. > ... > Is this really necessary? Can openvpn instead do something similar to > what ssh does and proxy my packets? > Yes, masquerading the packets coming from your vpn tunnel at your station at work will do the job. cheers ______________________ OpenVPN mailing lists https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |