VPN choices?
Dave B
g8kbvdave at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 13 18:09:08 UTC 2014
Hi All.
A question for the collective. I'm asking here, as I trust the opinions of the
assembled masses, over some other (perhaps) more appropriated lists.
Anyway...
I have a need for a simple VPN, to tunnel TCP and UDP trafic. It's the UDP
requiement that's stumping me at present.
I want to recreate something I did a few years ago. (Remote control my Ham
Radio station, from my desk at lunchtime, and when stuck in a hotel when
traveling for work.)
The VPN I used at that time was "Hamachi" on windows boxes both ends.
Nothing wrong with it, it was easy to setup, robust, fast and reliable, and
carried all protocols without issue. But, alas Hamachi is no more in that guise,
since the '5 dot' IP addresses were finaly released for routable internet use.
That, and the no-cost personal option of service was removed by LMI who
bought it from it's authors.
All I need, is a single instance of a remote to home link, to tunnel UDP/TCP
traffic. IPV4 only too. (No danger of my ISP moving to IPV6 for home users at
least, in the forseeable future.)
So, what choices...
At the home end, I have the FBSD9.2 box ticking away nicely, and I regularly
SSH into that and can do a lot of what I want over that path with PuTTY on the
portable (Windows7/64) box. It "just works." But, it doesn't do UDP.
So, I have to use Skype (or similar) for the sound path at present. That's
where the issues lie. Bandwidth! Skype works OK, fine indeed here in the UK,
but if either my domestic management is on Skype to her sister, or here at
work, people are streaming music or video at lunchtime, then our 20MEG link
gets saturated, or if I'm out in whereverland, bandwidth is scarce (some hotel
systems actively block it too.) I'm stumped.
What would the collective recommend, for either a simple UDP tunnel (only
obscurity needed for privacy, and of course no back doors) to run alongside the
sshd service.
Or a full blown minimal VPN. The "remote" end, is a ubiquitous Windows7
(64bit) laptop, that already has all the usual MS based VPN client tools that
work OK when traveling as I can easily get back to the office network. Would
that carry UDP? If so, is there a FBSD service I can install to support that?
So, not needing any extra software on the laptop.
Else, what sensible choices please? Whatever it is, it has to be suitable for a
bear of simple brain capacity to handle, when something burps some way in the
future.
73.
Dave B.
(G0WBX)
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