GyroTech
Hi all,
I have a VPS on which I run a few webistes, mail servers etc... and I would really like to keep any monitoring or remote configuration off of the public interface.
I was thinking about running an OpenVPN server, and letting certain services like web-based monitoring and sql services listen only to localhost or sockets, and the OpenVPN interface. I would then be able to connect from my machine from where ever over OpenVPN to the VPS and access these services. I wouldn´t want (for now) the VPS to act as a router for the OpenVPN connection, and while connected to the OpenVPN network only connections to the VPS itself should be routed via OpenVPN. Any other traffic originating from my machine should route locally out to the internet as normal.
Later I would like to extend this so that I could add the OpenVPN connection to my office pfSense router, so any attempt from anywhere of the office LAN to the VPS would be routed over the OpenVPN rather that each PC needing to run the OpenVPN client.
Is this a normal\possible setup or just a bit of a waste of time?
