<p dir="ltr">If I only need to connect back to one machine, ssh is fine. If it's more than one, a VPN is easier to use.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 6, 2015 7:42 AM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm once again mildly pondering a VPN for home use but I wonder if it's<br>
worth the effort over just having SSH with tunnels.<br>
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The main purpose for either one is to let me get back to my home network<br>
from my phone so I can do things like view security cameras, check/send<br>
email, and some other minor things.<br>
<br>
As far as I can tell from the documents, I only need to open a UDP port<br>
inbound on the firewall to establish the connection because the server<br>
should then set up an outbound connection back to the client (solving<br>
the NAT traversal and stateful firewall issues, please correct me if I'm<br>
wrong on this).<br>
<br>
Is it actually worth the setup or should I just stick with SSH? The<br>
current setup is an Android phone with ConnectBot and a bunch of<br>
tunnels. If I were to go VPN I would get a new machine (likely a SBC<br>
like a RasPi) to be the server, the firewall is still a separate device.<br>
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