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Sorry, perhaps linkbait was a better term. I can't comment on the software itself, but the title is unrelated to the content.
by nilved 13y ago
Sorry, perhaps linkbait was a better term. I can't comment on the software itself, but the title is unrelated to the content.
- justinsb 13y agoNo worries! I'm sorry you felt the title was unrelated; I like more "flowery" titles, and we have the "same title" rule on HN. The point I was trying to make with the title is that OpenSSH does a lot of what a full "VPN" does, yet is a _lot_ easier to configure than anything else I've encountered. Apart from PPTP, which is apparently the "rlogin" of VPNs ;-) free652 posted an even easier approach here, which sets up a SOCKS proxy with no extra configuration. If SOCKS is good enough, you should use that! If you want full tunneling, hopefully we can make my script easier / unnecessary.
- StavrosK 13y agoNah, I didn't read it that way. It seems to me it says "hey, OpenSSH can already do tunnels very effectively, but it's not very easy, so here's a quick script I wrote to make it easier". The author gain to reader gain is really, really low in this case, so I don't think it's content-free linkbait.