Re: Setting up a "reverse proxy"
Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> writes:
> I have a number of services running on my LAN at home that are only
> accessible to internal users. I'd like to have some way to make my
> laptop be an "internal user" when I'm not at home.
You probably want some sort of VPN for this. I use PPP over SSH,
using vpnstarter[1]. I treat 192.168.* as internal... 192.168.1.*
are the real home network, 192.168.2.* are the PPPoSSH stuff.
PPP over SSH gets a bad rap[2] but in my practical use of it for
about 3 years, has proven to be stable and very useful. It's a lot
easier to set up than IPSec, which is a much better general solution,
but has problems with NAT and firewalls which don't support it or
allow it through.
Important note: Make sure that ANY vpning to home from work is
approved by your network administrator!
So, take a look at VPNs for Linux. There are a bunch out there
(ipsec, cipe, and a couple others, I think...) so things may have
changed since I last evaluated them.
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.detached.net/vpnstarter/
[2] http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
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