On 06/21/2017 04:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > For a sole practitioner away from the office does a vpn offer benefits > greater than ssh for communicating with the office network? > > My question is prompted by upgrading openvpn here.
The biggest decision that you need to assess is what your needs are, and other replies have already covered this, so this is a bit of a more generic answer. If you are able to do all your work over command line, ssh is probably good enough for you. You will largely need to tunnel back any gui applications through your tunnel back to your display and run binaries remotely. If, however, you want to isolate *all* (or nearly so) your traffic from the network that you are connected to, you want VPN. This normally includes locally run browsers and mail clients. If you don't need this functionality, then VPN may not be necessary. My home network is static enough that I have a pseudo static IP, and I have configured OpenVPN for my own use when I connect to any foreign hotspot when using my phone, tablet, or laptop. This allows me to isolate all traffic through a perceived safe (hey, it's Comcast after all) gateway to the Internet, and the VPN also provides me with access my internal only services such as ownClound when remote for those pesky files that aren't already downloaded to my device. If your needs are simple and you can do everything over ssh, then stay with that, or explore and tinker with OpenVPN and decide if it's for you at some point in the future. dafr _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
