On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
<backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
> >
> > Also, do you plug the laptop in regularly anywhere else? Maybe you
> > could do a static assignment on the wired port but don't activate it
> > anywhere else - and then keep the DCHP assignment for the wifi
> > side.
>
> True - but I would like the backups to 'just' work whether using the
> wired or wireless ports. For now, I have the static assignment set for
> the wireless NIC since that is what people used most... but sometimes
> you actually prefer to use the wired NIC, especially for backup, since
> the link speed is faster.
I meant do the static assignments on the laptop side for the wired
interface, unless you use the wired connection elsewhere enough to be
a problem. Then you only need one setting on the router.
>
> > One other approach that would work would be to set up a VPN between
> > the backuppc server and targets using OpenVPN or something similar.
> > Normally you'd only need that to poke through firewalls or route
> > between private networks, but you can end up with a known IP at the
> > tunnel interface regardless of the networks/interfaces the packets
> > carrying the tunnel traverse.
> >
>
> Interesting thought but probably overkill, especially since the
> laptops are pretty slow...
But once set up, you could use router port-forwarding to let it work
from anywhere. And there's not that much overhead from OpenVPN.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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