Mikkel wrote: >> But as I have said, I prefer openvpn - >> it makes me feel that the machine in Italy is really close to me! >> Also I find it easier to use, eg with KMail/dovecot , >> though that is probably just a reflection of my knowledge/ignorance. > I guess I am not seeing what one has to do with the other. When I > make an openvpn connection from my laptop back to my home system, I > connect to foo.bar.com where foo.bar.com points to the dynamic IP > address of my home system. I could also use the IP address instead > of the host name. If you have openvpn set up correctly, it does not > care about the IP address, or host name on each end - it just cares > about the encryption keys. I have ssh set up the same way. (You can > try all day with user name/password and not get in.) Yes, I'm probably being naive, or maybe just ignorant. OpenVPN makes me feel that all the machines are in the same LAN (which I suppose they are), while two machines linked by ssh seems somehow more remote. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
