[mythtv-users] Open VPN server on backend

Steve Boyer steveboyer85 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 04:07:08 UTC 2015


> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:34:42 -0700
> From: Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Open VPN server on backend
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> On Thursday, November 19, 2015 04:50:27 PM Ian Evans wrote:
> > On Nov 19, 2015 4:42 PM, "Ben Kamen" <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2015-11-19 3:36 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Thursday, November 19, 2015 03:34:11 PM Ian Evans wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > My combined frontend/backend has 2gb of RAM. After too many times of
> > >>
> > >> > needing a file from the home network, I'm thinking of running an
> > openvpn
> > >>
> > >> > server. Anyone running one on their MythTV box? Is it pretty light load
> > >>
> > >> > wise?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Why not just SSH? Do you need to do more than transfer files?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yep!
> > >
> > > SSH with SCP/SFTP -- and you're golden!
> > >
> >
> > That would be fine if the main target was the myth box, but I'm looking to
> > have access to files on my windows desktop and the sftp option would mean
> > running an ftp server there as opposed to just having network access.
>
> Ah, you asked about a Myth box...
>
> Can you reach Windows shares from your Myth box? Then SSH is still viable, and probably a lot less hassle than managing an Open VPN server and two different clients, through a firewall.
>
> Googling around a bit, OpenVPN seems to require a minimum of 128-256M so it sounds pretty light.
>
> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1234447
>
> --
> A little of Jerome's MythTV World: http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca


I have an OpenVPN server running in a VM on my backend box right now
(Core 2 Duo T7200 with no hardware virtulization, 1 GB of RAM). The VM
itself is a 5 GB virtual drive, with 256 MB of RAM, and 256 MB swap
running off of Debian with bare-minimal installation. Uses about 30%
of my host RAM, but typically less than 10% of CPU usage. I opted for
the VM route simply because I wanted a disconnect between the VPN
server itself and the backend. I used https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN
mostly for guidance on setup. Let me know if you need any
clarifications on my setup!

Steve


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