From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 23:06:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0C7E673 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dorsai-02.celestial.com (dorsai-02.celestial.com [192.136.111.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA024C1F for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by dorsai-02.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5DD120487DB for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:59:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at celestial.com Received: from dorsai-02.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dorsai-02.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id S4pSboFOsO0R for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by dorsai-02.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A10420487C6 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CEB44F930A; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id iilSV+oBEXFY; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 4CB7844F9309; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:57:51 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN choices? Message-ID: <20140313225751.GA311@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5321F437.25463.1EE12BF@g8kbvdave.gmail.com> <1394743748.27964.YahooMailNeo@web125303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1394743748.27964.YahooMailNeo@web125303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 OpenPKG/CURRENT (2009-01-05) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:06:34 -0000 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014, Bill Tillman wrote: >I have had good luck with Open VPN, which is a port in FreeBSD. I can't say >I've done all that you referenced with it...Skype, etc.. But it's been >working just fine for my remote network needs. I have it on a server >running inside of my firewall, which is also a FreeBSD server and I use >NATD to redirect the port needed for VPN. We've been using OpenVPN for years with excellent results. It works very nicely with clients behind firewalls at hotels and such. When I'm out of my office, I open an OpenVPN tunnel from my Macbook Pro to our network, make an ssh connection through the VPN to my normal desktop in an xterm, then connect to my client's systems using ssh from there. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson