I want to be able to remotely administer a RB450G in order to access the usermanager webgui, and be able to make adjustments to RouterOS with WinBox.
On Linux servers, I would use a OpenVPN tunnel or a ssh tunnel with some ssh port forwarding in order to achieve this. However, I read that the ssh package doesn’t support tunneling.
Also, I don’t have any experience regarding ease of setup, throughput and manageability of VPN-like remote access solutions on routerboard hardware.
Which option do you use, and why? What would you recommend using in this scenario?
I’ve done a basic pptp tunnel to my mum and dads rb. and added routes accordingly. its just for apple remote desktop when they have problems. i don’t see why people say pptp is insecure though. unless you are a company doing vpn i guess it’ll be alright. works for me .
i use pptp with a dynamic ip. i wrote a script to make a tune when the pptp fails and also when it connects. its only been 3 days and it hasn’t dropped ( I’m visiting parents and fitted RB there as pptp client - rb493g at home and it only beeped/dropped when i purposely disabled connection to get it all the wife heard the apparent machine gun sound lol from the script) all is good - the keep alive is around 200bytes to keep the tunnel active. looking at the graphs it only peaks when i access the remote network so the 200 bytes thing seems valid to me. the link never has dropped, only once due to me thats why i say never. seems VERY stable.
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