I have never particularly liked Virtual Private Networking (VPN).\u00a0 From the old days, when there were a gadzillion of proprietary implementations, each being super slow, resource hungry, and requiring a mess of versions specific requirements, like Java and Firefox.\u00a0 Secure Shell (SSH) has always been my choice for remote connections and tunneling.<\/p>\n
Today I came across this article<\/a>, which also shows that SSH tunnels are much faster than OpenVPN (if one has to use VPN, OpenVPN is probably the best choice around).\u00a0 Needless to say they are also much easier to setup, both manually and automatically.<\/p>\n This adds yet another argument to my SSH vs VPN toolbox.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n I have never particularly liked Virtual Private Networking (VPN).\u00a0 From the old days, when there were a gadzillion of proprietary implementations, each being super slow, resource hungry, and requiring a mess of versions specific requirements, like Java and Firefox.\u00a0 Secure Shell (SSH) has always been my choice for remote connections and tunneling. Today I came … Continue reading SSH vs OpenVPN for Tunneling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"SSH vs OpenVPN for Tunneling #networking #SSH #VPN #security #performance #SysAdmin #WebDev","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62,1334],"tags":[281,200,3436,3410,1330,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-networks","tag-security","tag-ssh","tag-vpn","tag-web-development","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t