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Re:SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling by mirimir on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:08PM (#15774059)
A huge advantage of vpn tunnels is that they stay up indefinitely. I've had openvpn links stay up for months. With ssh, you're lucky to get a few days. I've tried scripts and even autossh, and ssh has never been as reliable as openvpn or tinc.
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Re:SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling by proctor on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:35PM (#15774115)
Does anyone have any experience with ipop/groupvpn[0]? It seems like an interesting alternative to tinc in that it can do turn/stun using libjingle to bust nat. I'm not clear on how well tested or secure it is though.

[0] http://ipop-project.org/

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Re:SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling by perlgeek on Saturday November 25, 2017 @04:56AM (#15775277)
Now I wonder if there's a way to combine mosh's automatic reconnecting with ssh tunneling somehow...
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Re:SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling by Fnoord on Saturday November 25, 2017 @07:16AM (#15775696)
That's latency related. Mosh uses UDP only, sshuttle uses TCP only.

AutoSSH plus some firewall scripts to ensure data only travels through the VPN would suffice.

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