At 11:05 PM 12/19/2002 -0800, you wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > I'd like to set up encrypted tunnels between RAQs at a few > different colo points for the purposes of securing backups between > sites. Before I go reinvent the wheel, has anyone done anything > like this already? Do you have to use a VPN, or would rsync over SSH work?
Well ... I would like to use VPN so that I can run multiple protocols over the same tunnel ... for things like SNMP, backup, "r" tools (rsh, rlogin, etc), but I suppose that just allowing rsync to tunnel over SSH would work for my immediate need.
Seems to me that VPNs would scale better when multiple applications are needed. but SSH tunneling would meed the objectives for a short term / single application project.
Any way to fire off an SSH tunnel connection and run it as a daemon, so that if something happens and it drops, I don't have to manually bring it back up?