I would definitely suggest openvpn, since you start the daemon, It keeps trying to connect, so basically you never lose access to the server
2010/11/24 James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org>: > Yes, I've done something similar. > > For providers that do not provide a return routable IP address, I used > ppp and openvpn, otherwise I used ppp and dyndns. > > Making the connection with ppp is relatively straightforward, a script > can activate pppd with the necessary arguments, there's no need to stuff > around with NetworkManager if you don't want to. > > For an example script that makes a connection: > http://quozl.linux.org.au/darcs/eee-bpw/usr/sbin/bpw > > This was part of an eeePC support package for a service available in > Australia, see: > http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/eee.phtml > > And my original research on which this was based was here: > http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/ > > Once the connection is up, OpenVPN can be started, or dyndns activated > to register the IP. > > The key to writing a script that runs pppd and then starts OpenVPN, is > to use the updetach option to pppd. This returns success from the > command once the connection is established. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel