Re: VPN if all you have is ssh!

["Alex Pennace" <user=219@nabble.blu.org>]

 As an aside, I was thinking about doing exactly this earlier today. 

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:51:29AM -0400, [hidden email] wrote: 
> Now, run ssh with the -w option (for a VPN) as: 
> 
> ssh -f -p 2022 -w 0:0 root@localhost "/root/vpn/vpnstartup.sh" 
> 
> # Now initialize tunnel device created by ssh 
> /sbin/ifconfig tun0 
> # Now assign it an ip address on your local network 
> /sbin/ifconfig tun0 192.168.2.10 
> # Now add a route for it 
> /sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 tun0 
> 
> On the remote machine, you'll create a script called "startvpn.sh" 
> /sbin/ifconfig tun0 
> /sbin/ifconfig tun0 192.168.1.99 
> /sbin/route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 tun0 
> 
> This assumes your local network is 192.168.2.0, and your work network is 
> 192.168.1.0. You probably should parameterize the scripts to make them 
> more flexible.