VPN setup question

[Chad Perrin]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:02:14PM -0400, Steve Lake wrote:
> At 10:53 PM 5/18/2008 +0200, Mister Olli wrote:
> 
> >- what kind of traffic do you wanna protect?
> 
>         Everything if possible.  Basically I'm trying to create a 
> protected Internet connection by using the VPN to allow me to connect to my 
> vpn server at my home office over an insecure public connection.  I would 
> then use that vpn connection to securely securely surf the web from 
> anywhere in the US or the world.

From what I'm reading, it looks like you want a secure proxy rather than
a VPN, per se.  SSH can be used to provide that functionality very
simply:

  http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=408

That explains how to use SSH for remote proxy service with Firefox, but
it's simple enough to do the same thing with Pidgin for IMs and a number
of other applications.  Would that solve the problems you want solved?

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."
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