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[{"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300122528.2980959, "message": "BTW, work is a Cisco VPN, clients and my server are SSH. I generally just run ssh -D on different ports and use socks.", "group_id": 373, "id": 349172}, {"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300122469.0373621, "message": "I have a semi-complicated arrangement for tunneling.  I need to send some connections through to the office, a few through a second tunnel to clients, and the rest I tunnel through my server. I am stuck to using firefox and thunderbird because I can use a .pac to route the connections, but it is a little bit fragile and a little bit of a pain. Anyone have a suggestion for a way to simplify?", "group_id": 373, "id": 349162}, {"user_id": 20981, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300125892.227438, "message": "It's kind of hard to tell what exactly you mean by office, clients, and server.  Are they all in distinct locations?  If so, you should consider using a route-based VPN solution if you are able to distinguish \"public\" vs. \"private, for example.", "group_id": 373, "id": 349604}, {"user_id": 1887, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300143295.284519, "message": "OpenVPN?", "group_id": 373, "id": 351830}, {"user_id": 7945, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300158986.3487909, "message": "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVPN", "group_id": 373, "id": 353148}, {"user_id": 7945, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300158588.1196139, "message": "Lots of ways to vpn, from proprietary to open source.  Unfortunately they are usually a pain to setup and debug unless you're comfortable in debugging networks.  The easiest is something like an ssh tunnel as mentioned above.   OpenVPN can get hairy on the install and debug depending upon how you setup the server.", "group_id": 373, "id": 353120}, {"user_id": 7945, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300158977.3682029, "message": "On ubuntu to see what you're in for on the server look at this:", "group_id": 373, "id": 353147}, {"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300159367.9426639, "message": "@jathanism: Yes, they are distinct locations. Any suggestions on route-base VPN?", "group_id": 373, "id": 353184}, {"user_id": 20682, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300196840.433017, "message": "http://perfect-privacy.com - Amazing", "group_id": 373, "id": 355962}, {"user_id": 20682, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300196890.064714, "message": "/me reads OP - If you figure it out, lemme know, i want to do something similar", "group_id": 373, "id": 355974}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300199769.2315371, "message": "@VanL Have you seem sshuttle? It doesn't require remote privileged access and should work with normal routing if you can express what you want in terms of netblocks", "group_id": 373, "id": 356575}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300213438.956099, "message": "+1 on sshuttle! It's awesome: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle", "group_id": 373, "id": 359161}, {"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300213795.5192411, "message": "@acdha, @wolever: No, I will check it out. Thanks for the pointer.", "group_id": 373, "id": 359199}, {"user_id": 7945, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300221405.3007159, "message": "The way he implemented it reminds me of Slirp", "group_id": 373, "id": 360019}, {"user_id": 20981, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13035, "date_created": 1300284566.0171759, "message": "@VanL I would give sshuttle a try and use that with a combination of static routes on your machine.  Then you have various tunnels and can have your system automatically send your packets the right way.  Of course I'm oversimplifying but hopefully I'm conveying the basic concept. ", "group_id": 373, "id": 366087}]