Richard Hector wrote: > On 9/04/19 12:14 PM, timothylegg wrote: > > I have two residences and one > > has a port forwarding issue. I want to make an SSH tunnel to the > > other site. If I am at one place for multiple weeks, it's asking too > > much for the SSH tunnel to stay live that long (I've seen many > > complaints of SSH connections dropping). I want to put it on a > > periodic cron job, but if I don't answer into the tunnel within 30 > > minutes, it becomes idle and drops off. Every hour a new tunnel is > > initiated. The old session must either be closed or expire else I'll > > have multiple SSH sessions live simultaneously. > > Have you considered using a VPN instead of SSH tunnelling? > > Eg I have OpenVPN set up to my parents' place, so that I can do > (automatic) backups of their system. > > I did run into issues with address space conflicts (I can't renumber > either end), so in the end I did it all with IPv6, but you might not > need that.
If you love SSH: autossh. If you want the easiest VPN config: wireguard (currently available only in unstable, but known to work in stable) -dsr-
