On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 03:17:11PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:47:42 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
I can continue to do my reverse ssh tunnel connection but everyone I talk to about this says a VPN is the answer. However I'm having a hard time seeing how to get this installed and working without a huge amount of effort.
For example wireguard is supposed to be a simpler, easier alternative to OpenVPN but take a look at:-
https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/It's horrible! It's do-able, I can understand all the stages but it's just not nice.
Similarly VPN tutorials are full of misinformation, take a look at this one:- https://thishosting.rocks/how-to-set-up-openvpn-on-ubuntu/
It's rubbish! ... and all the others I've looked at are either similarly wrong or more complex than the wireguard one.
Is VPN *really* this difficult? If so I'll stay with my ssh approach.
Chris
No, it really isn't difficult, and there are plenty of really good tutorials out there. Take a look in particular at the Debian article at https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN or the excellent Arch tutorial at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN.
But haven't we been here before? Back in 2012 I wrote a post https://baldric.net/2012/10/27/using-openvpn-to-bypass-nat-firewalls/ following a similar discussion on ALUG. Does that help?
Yes, I have been here before but it was coming from a different direction! :-)