[plug] Routing with nonat - ssh tunnel and port forwarding

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 19 08:38:34 WST 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:18 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Carl Gherardi <carl.gherardi at gmail.com> writes:
> 
...
> 
> Respectfully to William, while using a VPN for this would probably work
> it seems overkill to me unless you actually /need/ the privacy it
> assures you of, or you already have one in place.
> 
> For simply tunnelling the IP traffic across the network you can create a
> tunnel trivially, with either IP-in-IP or GRE, on Linux, without a
> problem.
...

Never tried ip-in-ip etc - I've always needed an encrypted path.  The
performance benefits would make it attractive if privacy isnt a problem.

BillK







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