[139854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VPN over slow Internet connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Richards)
Thu Apr 21 13:22:55 2011
In-Reply-To: <CBE22E5FF427B149A272DD1DDE10752404E22C1F@EX2K3.armc.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:22:42 -0400
From: Fred Richards <fredr@geexology.org>
To: "Darden, Patrick S." <darden@armc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: fredr@geexology.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> We are looking into utilising OpenVPN for out-of-office workers who
> would be running mobile broadband in rural areas. Typical data across
> the wire would be SQL queries for custom applications and not much else.
>
I agree with Patrick, SSH would do nicely. You could even setup a
tunnel, and the sql queries could hit localhost:3306 (for mysql for
example) and connect, encrypted to a remote server. At 2-3KB/sec, I
wouldn't expect the ability to have too many people concurrently
connecting to the database.
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