On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Travis Poppe wrote:
> I was recently doing some thinking about how I might access my data at home
> from a friend's house or somewhere else while using my Jornada 720.
>
> FreeBSD recently got a port of FuseFS+SSHFS, which allows you to mount a
> remote filesystem on another machine via ssh so long as you have ssh access
> to it. This would be ideal, but I don't believe NetBSD has FUSE support yet.
>
> Are there any encrypted/secure alternatives to this on NetBSD that would be
> usable on the Jornada 720 (hpcarm)? CPU and RAM usage are of concern. NFS
> would be fine for the device while at home, but not from remote locations.

Take a look at OpenVPN (net/openvpn in pkgsrc). It's an SSL VPN rather 
than IPsec which is often friendlier from a firewall point of view. It's 
easy to configure and with NetBSD 3.0 you can use it in either bridged 
(you appear to be part of the network) or routed mode.

-- 
Stephen