Well, I think we're talking about two
different kinds of vpn:
1) VPN for Remote Access. Connecting to home, work, or some other
form of remote access to a given network. I don't think that's
what we're discussing here, but if desired, openvpn as a server
would be just fine. I do that here on my wrt router for remote
access to my network, and use zerotier as a SDN solution for
networking between given hosts on any network as another more
convenient alternative.
2) VPN for Hiding Yourself. This is what I think we're mostly
talking here, which is using a VPN client to connect to a remote
network, using recommended services like PIA for making yourself
appear to be leaving another country to keep scavenger laywers at
bay. This uses usually either a Socks/HTTP Proxy connection, or a
full openvpn-based connection.
If you or anyone you know likes to bittorrent pretty much anything
anymore, do yourself a favor and use a (#2) VPN. If you just want
to remotely access your home/work resources, #1 is what you want.
-mb
On 10/03/2016 09:17 PM, Stephen M wrote:
I agree with toddc. If your starting to learn
about VPN networking it's best to try a free option. I had
Zentyal installed on an old desktop that is collecting dust at
the moment. But I had OpenVPN working in home and it worked
fine. Sure I remoted into my home server once in a while but I
was able to learn how to setup a VPN. I was looking at tigerVPN
a few years but and I've also looked into sshuttle. I don't see
a need for a big or pay fee VPN unless I'm doing something
massive. For learning purposes do something small and in house
before you go public.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Stephen
Partington <
cryptworks@gmail.com>
wrote:
I was really interested in tigerVPN and
their lifetime deal they had recently on android
central.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:28
PM, Todd Cole <
toddc@azloco.com>
wrote:
If you are just looking for a vpn to your
home there are many free vpn and or firewall
router vpns or even a Raspberry PI
makes a great home VPN server $35.00 or a old
desktop would also work
also a lot of routers already include a Built in
vpn of some kind
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