Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> I have OpenVPN set up; I found the brief instructions >> that come with CentOS openvpn (eg /etc/openvpn/2.0/README) >> perfectly adequate - what I'm asking about is the _use_ of OpenVPN. > Sorry, what exactly are you asking for here? The implemented OpenVPN > is nothing but a (virtual, distributed, etc...) LAN. Imagine several > hosts connected together with a switch and a bunch of ethernet cables. > It is used in the same way an ordinary LAN can be used. Thanks for your response. I'm interested to know how you - or anyone else implementing OpenVPN - actually uses it in practice. I use it to login to a remote computer over OpenVPN using ssh. (This is largely a safety measure, since a straightforward ssh connection sometimes fails because the remote machine has a dynamic address. But it is also simpler because it avoids firewall issues, as you say.) Someone suggested that using ssh with openvpn was foolish since "encapsulating an SSH link with a VPN tunnel makes not much sense". So I'm interested to know how people in general use OpenVPN. Am I in fact unusual in using ssh with OpenVPN? I prefer not to run OpenVPN through NetworkManager because I have problems with NM anyway, and also I don't run NM on the servers in question. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland