Steve wrote:

> The dynamic IP serving seems to be an issue with most (or maybe I'm not
> seeing the solution).  I found no-ip.com which provides a free IP
> forwarding system for windoze, but I'm not sure if there is a better
> solution.

There are several companies that will do dynamic DNS.  Some are free,
or nearly so.

tzo.com is one; dyndns.org is another.  Personally, I use dyndns.org
(your 1st address is free!) along with a Linksys WRT54G router running
the Talisman firmware from Sveasoft (which will automatically update
dyndns.org when my IP changes).  This way I don't have to run an
application on a Windows machine in order to keep my DNS record
up-to-date.

The Talisman firmware claims to automatically connect to commercial
VPN systems, but I've not tried this.  I imagine that it's also
possible to set up 2 Talisman routers to act as VPN servers.

It also sounds like some of what's been talked about on here could be
accomplished with an ssh server and the use of port-forwarding (or
scp, or sftp, etc), rather than a full-blown VPN.  An OpenSSH server
can be run as a service under Windows if you install the Cygwin
(www.cygwin.com) package (which is free!).  Of course, OpenSSH runs
under most variants of Unix.  And I like PuTTY as a free windows ssh
client.

Installation and configuration of OpenSSH, Cygwin, the Talisman
firmware, etc. is left as an exercise for the interested reader.

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Sean C. Malloy                        smalloy@io.com

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