[ale] Remote file systems and tunnels

[Brian Mathis]

I've not used it for this, but maybe you should look into setting up a VPN
between the two servers using OpenVPN.  This is essentially the same as
what you're looking at using SSH for, except it would actually be a real
VPN instead of hacking some stuff through SSH port forwards.


❧ Brian Mathis


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> I'm working on setting up a pair of systems that will need to have the
> storage volumes on one (file server) mounted by the other (application
> server).  The first problem is they're both going to be on different
> subnets (no choice).
>
> I'd like to have a secure link between the two.  I could set up NFS though
> that exposes the NFS server's ports to all machines (although I suppose I
> could also run iptables and allow only the app server through).  I was
> thinking it might be possible to tunnel NFS (or something similar and
> suitable) via SSH.  Then I only need the SSH port open on the server.
>
> The problem is that any document I find for tunneling NFS seems to be
> several years old.
>
> Thoughts?
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