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I have a small vserver with unlimited bandwith. I now want to use this server to "access the internet", that means, establish a secure (SSL) link to the vserver and the vserver accesses the internet.
I want this to have a secure connection when I'm on public wifi hotspots for example.
What is the best way to achieve this? The VPN (or is there a better solution than VPN?) server should be extremely lightweight as I have little RAM on my server. I wouldn't mind a good tutorial as well.
thanks
Last edited by manzinger (2010-04-13 16:35:56)
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OpenVPN is what you want to use if you want a true VPN, however a lot easier is just to use SSH with a dynamic port forward, and use it as a SOCKS proxy:
ssh -D 127.0.0.1:8080 server.com
Then set firefox etc to use localhost port 8080 as it's SOCKS proxy....
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I have a similar setup and use TightVNC though an ssh tunnel. Speed is ok if you use the right encryption method. You might look at FreeNX. I had it working for a while then it quit working and I just never fixed it. Speed was a little better, but not that much.
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OpenVPN is what you want to use if you want a true VPN, however a lot easier is just to use SSH with a dynamic port forward, and use it as a SOCKS proxy:
ssh -D 127.0.0.1:8080 server.com
Then set firefox etc to use localhost port 8080 as it's SOCKS proxy....
this works perfectly, thanks!
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Glad that solves your problem
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