On Tue,09.Sep.08, 10:12:40, Chris Davies wrote: [...] > No, you're not too paranoid, but I think you've missed the point of > the suggestion. > > Install OpenVPN on both your mother's PC and your system. Set her PC's > installation to establish the connection to yours. Use the builtin ping > options to keep the connection open through the NAT layers (e.g. if the > smallest NAT timeout is 300 seconds, set the ping timer to 140 seconds). > > This will give you an encrypted bi-directional connection between your > system and your mother's PC, which you can then use from your end whenever > you need to do so. Maybe I'm dense, but I still don't see the benefits compared to a ssh tunnel.
Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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