On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:14:12 +0000 Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org> wrote: > Its down to the question about what you are needing to do. If you > just need SSH access then SSH direct without VPN is just fine. SSH > itself is encrypted and the VPN just encrypts the already encrypted > traffic again and just slows things down. Direct SSH access might be impossible if the remote machine is behind a NAT. Using SSH through VPN is a very convenient solution in those cases. I also happen to use OpenVPN, for precisely that reason. HTH, :-) Marko