Thread: Connecting to N900 on GPRS from PC
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2010-02-05 , 13:59
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Originally Posted by rdsammons View Post
I like the idea of doing this through VPN, and would love to see what you have done to see if I can modify it for our needs...my concern is that the devices still need internet connectivity - and if they are on our VPN and allowing an ssh tunnel through that way, I think we will eliminate their internet access, but I need to confirm this.
i believe VPN is indeed your best option. the mobile devices will be accessible via an internal IP, and you can ssh into them etc.

regarding internet access, it's just a question of how you set up the routing table. you can send all internet traffic through the tunnel (i actually do that so i can use Skype over 3G), or you set up the route so that only "internal" traffic gets routed through the tunnel interface.

but unless your company line has some sort of volume restriction, that's not really necessary IMO. i surf over my VPN tunnel all the time, and it's just as fast as without it.
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