Re: Low power SSH Tunneling

[Joseph Heenan <joseph-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

seniorsimon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I work on various different sites and from time to time need secure
> accesss to my home pc to either grab a file, or browse for something
> outside of the internet restrictions I sometimes get stuck with.
>
> At the moment I use OpenSSH for windows on my home machine, which
> works really well, but means I need to leave my machine on a lot as I
> don't always have advance warning of when I will need to access it.
>
> I want to do provide ssh tunneling to the internet in a lower power
> way, and a bit of googling has pulled out the possibility of using a
> NSLU2 from Linksys with a linux port, or a WRT54G wireless router
> using linux as well.

I've used a WRT54G with the dd-wrt.

It might be a better solution if you want something easy to setup - the
dd-wrt web interface supports sending wake on lan packets which would
allow you to turn your PC on remotely.

Joseph



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