[OSX-Users] VPN to soton

[Hugh Glaser]

> On 15 Feb 2017, at 16:53, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 15 Feb 2017, at 16:10, Hugh Glaser <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15 Feb 2017, at 16:02, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 15/02/2017 15:53, Tim Chown wrote:
>>>> On 15 Feb 2017, at 15:46, Hugh Glaser <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> It is a real pain, by the way, if you want someone to complain.
>>>>> My machine at home also serves incoming stuff for web services, and I also want to be able to access it from away from home, either as ssh or various file or screen sharing options and/or VPN(!, yes it runs a VPN server, of course :-) ).
>>>>> That means I need to ensure that the VPN to Soton is not running when I leave home - and of course that means it closes my ssh connections to the University that had to start under VPN to allow access.
>>>> Try mosh?
>> Yeah, that would help on the disconnection problem (although actually ssh will survive for quiet a long time if you don't touch it.)
>> But that is only part of the problem.
> 
> Maybe I misunderstood, what’s the other part?
I'm not sure that all the incoming stuff works properly - I have a feeling that it won't route incoming VPN over the VPN, but I'm not sure.
Certainly it drops the mounting of a shared disk on another machine, and I have to reconnect.
Anyway, now I have a solution, it's all good :-)

> 
> Tim