Fixing a little VPN annoyance
I’m writing this in a coffee shop, and when I’m using a public wireless network, I like to secure my network traffic using a virtual private network (VPN) that I set up on my server at home. Without this, anyone else close by could spy on what I’m doing (including seeing passwords I’m sending to badly-secured web sites). Unfortunately, the connection appears to go bad after a short while, and it took me weeks to spend the minute it took to find a fix.
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