accessing home network

[Michael Butash]

Strong crypto and authentication is ideal, ssh with shared-key or strong 
pass is ideal in a bastion (single) host scenario.  If you have limited 
home lan resources, this is just fine.  If you run multiple hosts, vpn 
becomes ideal to expose route ability to your entire lan. Xwindow or VNC 
via ssh-based port forwards work well for graphical interfaces in this 
scenario too.  You can use sshfs (apt-get/yum install) for file sharing 
easily too.

Consider enterprise concept of connecting to more than a *few* hosts. 
Openvpn is a nice gateway for this, especially if you have a ddwrt or 
tomato-based firmware'd router, or a flexible vmware environment.  You 
can likewise buy a small cisco pix 501 firewall off ebay that'll do 
enterprise ipsec crypto vpn for a cable modem off ebay/craigslist for a 
hundred bucks with (solid) cisco software client support for ipsec vpn. 
  It accomplishes direct ip/port connectivity without the 
port-forwarding mess assuming you memorize ip's or setup dns.  This 
gives employable experience as well in the security/network world.

-mb


On 12/31/2011 08:57 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> How does one access their home network from a remote location? What I
> want to do is backup my laptops hard drive to my desktops hard drive
> with fsarchiver. I know..... by the time I get a reply I will be home
> and will have accessed my home network but I might need to do this for
> some other reason.
>
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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