On: Do you need a VPN?

[subway]

Not to mention incredibly limited IP support. You can forward a few specific ports, or use SOCKS, but that's about it.

[earenndil → subway]

Why is SOCKS limited? Just make whatever you want to send your traffic through proxy it through the SOCKS.

[_joel → earenndil]

Indeed, ssh -D {port} is something I use heavily (to create a SOCKS5 connection to a remote server, effectively a VPN)

[cat199 → earenndil]

This assumes 'whatever you want to send traffic through' speaks SOCKS.. most things dont. Web yes, but not most other things.

[jsjohnst → cat199]

> most things don’t

That’s entirely not true. If you’d said “some”, you’d be right, but “most” is categorically incorrect.

[jsjohnst → subway]

I guess you’ve never heard of TUN/TAP support in SSH?