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danfruehauf / NetworkManager-ssh

SSH VPN integration for NetworkManager
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Project differentiators: NetworkManager-ssh vs PuTTY? #72

Open baimafeima opened 6 years ago

baimafeima commented 6 years ago

I'm curious how your project is different from PuTTY. Are there different use cases or functions that are complementary? Many thanks for the clarifications. My specific use case is that I want to set up an Algo server and I am currently looking into the best available options to do that. I am also trying to find a way to obfuscate traffic to prevent DPI inspection from ISPs when connecting to a commercial VPN provider that I trust.

danfruehauf commented 6 years ago

Although I've used putty in the past, I think both projects are very different. You may want to compare putty to OpenSSH, if at all. Putty is a SSH suite for windows - simply put, there might be more to it.

This project uses OpenSSH and provides a simple interface to use the much unused feature of SSH that is full SSH VPN. Comparing it to Putty will probably not do much justice to putty.

If you're after setting up a fully features VPN, you should probably be looking at other protocols that are solely designed for VPN. OpenVPN for instance is a really good option.