[ale] SSH tunnel vs VPN

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

It does happen to be more than one machine but I've done things like
setup bookmarks and such to reach them via their individual SSH tunnels.

Maybe it's worth a test run if I fire up an old machine and see what
happens.

On 2015-11-06 07:54, Jim Kinney wrote:
> If I only need to connect back to one machine, ssh is fine. If it's more
> than one, a VPN is easier to use.
> On Nov 6, 2015 7:42 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm once again mildly pondering a VPN for home use but I wonder if it's
>> worth the effort over just having SSH with tunnels.
>>
>> The main purpose for either one is to let me get back to my home network
>> from my phone so I can do things like view security cameras, check/send
>> email, and some other minor things.
>>
>> As far as I can tell from the documents, I only need to open a UDP port
>> inbound on the firewall to establish the connection because the server
>> should then set up an outbound connection back to the client (solving
>> the NAT traversal and stateful firewall issues, please correct me if I'm
>> wrong on this).
>>
>> Is it actually worth the setup or should I just stick with SSH?  The
>> current setup is an Android phone with ConnectBot and a bunch of
>> tunnels.  If I were to go VPN I would get a new machine (likely a SBC
>> like a RasPi) to be the server, the firewall is still a separate device.