[clue-tech] VPN over Internet

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:40 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> > I want to be able to VPN into someone's computer over the Internet.
> > Thanks to Jef Barnhart, I have been using www.logmein.com, but I am
> > wondering what alternatives others have tried and recommend.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't say VPN I think.  If you mean VPN then OpenVPN is the 
> way to go.  For example: I need to run an app at home that connects to a 
> database at the office (oh, and my shared folders etc).  That's what I 
> use OpenVPN for and I wouldn't use anything else.
> 
> I read the Linux VPNs book and OpenVPN makes most of what it discusses 
> obsolete.  SSH tunneling is still good for many things though, 
> especially when you already use it and think, "Oh rats--I need to be on 
> *that* box to (get around NAT, whatever)."
> 
> PPTP in the MS world has been replaced by IPSec, I think, and that's 
> what Cisco uses.  So if you have to work with one of those then there 
> are IPSec solutions, but I've never found one that was easy (especially 
> since the VPN admins can't answer config questions about Linux).
> 
> If you want to log in to a computer, I would say remote desktop or 
> remote login, not VPN.  So you probably already know those: rdesktop, 
> VNC, SSH, and now it turns out there are some web based things like 
> logmein.  There's a thread on that starting at:
> 
> http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/Week-of-Mon-20090119/037611.html
> 
> I think SSH should be sufficient unless you're talking Windows (wrong 
> list then, eh? ;-)  But what requirements do you have that aren't fully 
> met by logmein?
> 
> Dave
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I'm just looking for options.  Which ones work well, etc.

I don't know if logmein will run on Linux.  In the past I've only used
it to access a Windows machine.

Now that I think of it, maybe I must use something like logmein, because
the other computer is on a friend's computer on Comcast.  Any IP address
they give me would probably be unreachable from my end.