Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-08-19 at 22:34 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >   Many commercial VPNs claim to support linux.  Do they do this at the > OS level as an executable, or at the browser level as an extension? The real answer, that I suspect you're looking for, is no. There's no custom software required in

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-21 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/08/2023 03:34, Walter Dnes wrote: I've been on Gentoo for years and years, but I've never used a VPN, so consider me an absolute newbie. Canadian big news media has successfully lobbied our government to implement a link tax. Google has decided to avoid the tax by not linking to it in

RE: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-21 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Walter Dnes > Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2023 7:34 PM > To: Gentoo Users List > Subject: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions > > CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Do not click links or open attachments > unless you recognize the sender and know the

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 20 August 2023 13:58:08 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> OpenVPN is a VPN implementation using OpenSSL to encrypt the end-to-end >>> network connection between client and server. There are other VPN >>> implementations and client-server applications using

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 20 August 2023 13:58:08 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > OpenVPN is a VPN implementation using OpenSSL to encrypt the end-to-end > > network connection between client and server. There are other VPN > > implementations and client-server applications using different encryption > >

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 20 August 2023 11:49:18 BST Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Dale wrote >> >>> I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a year. They have a pretty >>> large list of countries, multiple cities in some countries, to pick >>> from. I

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 20 August 2023 11:49:18 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Dale wrote > > > I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a year. They have a pretty > > large list of countries, multiple cities in some countries, to pick > > from. I deal with torrents

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Dale wrote > I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a year.  They have a pretty > large list of countries, multiple cities in some countries, to pick > from.  I deal with torrents and that is my reason for the need of a VPN, > just in case some may

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-19 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > I've been on Gentoo for years and years, but I've never used a VPN, so > consider me an absolute newbie. Canadian big news media has > successfully lobbied our government to implement a link tax. Google has > decided to avoid the tax by not linking to it in Google search.

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-24 Thread Mick
On Monday 23 Dec 2013 17:44:17 Timur Aydin wrote: On 12/23/13 18:24, Burak Arslan wrote: Once the VPN connection is established, among the routes pushed by your OpenVPN provider is also a default gateway entry which routes every non-local packet through the vpn. Here is the routing setup

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 11:24 AM, Burak Arslan wrote: If that's the case (big if :)), here's what you need to do: http://lartc.org/lartc.html#AEN267 Oh, this is the same link I posted later. Impressive guess =)

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 07:47 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: Hello everybody, I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP. Everything is working fine. Now I have installed a VPN server on this system (OpenVPN)

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
On 12/23/13 17:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/23/2013 07:47 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: Hello everybody, I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP. Everything is working fine. Now I have

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 11:01 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: I am located in Turkey. The VPN service provider is http://www.strongvpn.com and they have servers all over the world. I am using their server located in New York. Once I establish the SSL VPN tunnel, the NY server effectively becomes my internet

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Burak Arslan
Selamlar, On 12/23/13 18:01, Timur Aydin wrote: On 12/23/13 17:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/23/2013 07:47 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: Hello everybody, I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP.

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
On 12/23/13 18:12, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Anything you can provide, it's not clear to the rest of us how many computers are involved. Is the web/mail server only the gatway, or is that the workstation that you're using (when, for example, trying to access the website)? This is my home

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
On 12/23/13 18:24, Burak Arslan wrote: Once the VPN connection is established, among the routes pushed by your OpenVPN provider is also a default gateway entry which routes every non-local packet through the vpn. Here is the routing setup after the tunnel is up: bonsai ~ # /etc/init.d/openvpn

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 12:39 PM, Timur Aydin wrote: On 12/23/13 18:12, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Anything you can provide, it's not clear to the rest of us how many computers are involved. Is the web/mail server only the gatway, or is that the workstation that you're using (when, for example, trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 07:04 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: The not-simple solutions are probably going to involve reorganizing your network a bit; having a workstation, web server, and VPN client all on one box is giving you conflicting requirements. But maybe if you're lucky, you have a static public

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN connection from gentoo to OSX server?

2013-06-17 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 Jun 2013 22:49:46 walt wrote: A colleague of mine has set up a Mac server just for the purpose of being a VPN server for the rest of us at work. So far I can't make a good vpn connection from this linux machine or my android tablet. I can log in using a vnc client and poke

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/22/13 12:36, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, I am trying to get hostname address resolution on my LAN and VPN with one serious problem: I have two networks eg. 10.1.1.0 and 10.2.2.0 which are representing local address space for LAN (10.1.1.0/8) and VPN address space (10.2.2.0/8). This isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/22/2013 01:36 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/22/13 12:36, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, I am trying to get hostname address resolution on my LAN and VPN with one serious problem: I have two networks eg. 10.1.1.0 and 10.2.2.0 which are representing local address space for LAN (10.1.1.0/8)

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Samuraiii
On 2013-05-22 19:52, Michael Mol wrote: On 05/22/2013 01:36 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/22/13 12:36, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, I am trying to get hostname address resolution on my LAN and VPN with one serious problem: I have two networks eg. 10.1.1.0 and 10.2.2.0 which are representing

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/22/2013 02:30 PM, Samuraiii wrote: On 2013-05-22 19:52, Michael Mol wrote: On 05/22/2013 01:36 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/22/13 12:36, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, I am trying to get hostname address resolution on my LAN and VPN with one serious problem: I have two networks eg.

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/22/13 14:30, Samuraiii wrote: I'm sorry for mistake the subnet mask for both spaces IS 255.255.255.0. so it is not overlapping at all. I apologise for my mistake in notation. still this is not (mainly) problem with routing but problem with assigning name to address. If I had superfast

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Samuraiii
On 2013-05-22 20:52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/22/13 14:30, Samuraiii wrote: I'm sorry for mistake the subnet mask for both spaces IS 255.255.255.0. so it is not overlapping at all. I apologise for my mistake in notation. still this is not (mainly) problem with routing but problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/22/13 15:35, Samuraiii wrote: The only result I got was a script which every 5 minutes checked all possible addresses of given machine (my network is not big at all - only eight machines and one network printer). So checking around 20 addreses is not big deal - but this approach feels

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread covici
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 05/22/13 12:36, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, I am trying to get hostname address resolution on my LAN and VPN with one serious problem: I have two networks eg. 10.1.1.0 and 10.2.2.0 which are representing local address space for LAN

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread covici
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/22/2013 01:36 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/22/13 12:36, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, I am trying to get hostname address resolution on my LAN and VPN with one serious problem: I have two networks eg. 10.1.1.0 and 10.2.2.0 which are

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Alex
Hi, On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:35:30PM +0200, Samuraiii wrote: Script was just checking (by sftp with public ssh keys for unprivileged account) if LAN (eth or wifi) address is up and if not it just assigned address to hostname from vpn range (it did not accounted if machine is up or down).

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread William Kenworthy
I am doing something sort of similar ... use a routing protocol and set the metrics to make the LAN more attractive so it will get used over the wifi. Use dhcp to update dns. I was using ospf (quagga), dns and ISC dhcp which auto-updates bind. This is transparent to the the hosts, is a pain to

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Get dyndns working on one end... and then use ppp over ssh... :) http://www.csh.rit.edu/~psionic/articles/ppp-over-ssh/ http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Samstag, den 27.08.2005, 00:32 -0400 schrieb Michael Crute: On 8/27/05, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having alot of luck with openvpn it's ssl based rather than ipsec. I have found it to be easier to setup and less confusing and

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 27 August 2005 04:12, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: OK I have read the vpn howto, and tunneling from the howto, and to be truthfull i am totally over my head. http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/ipsec-x509.php As long as the server has a static address, you'll be fine. Doesn't even

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Get dyndns working on one end... and then use ppp over ssh... :) http: //www.csh.rit.edu/~psionic/articles/ppp-over-ssh/ http: //www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html Nah, don't do that. It will introduce major issues reg. connection

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my router/gateway which is dyndns enabled, how do I get to my ip on the server, set up port forwarding on the router. Most router-in-a-box appliances will let you

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
On Friday 26 August 2005 10:12 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I want to be able to access a desktop machine, and most importantly the bsd file server with my laptop, again with a dynamic assigned ip from remote locations. I suggest one of those trendy dynamic DNS services (or a _real_

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-26 Thread David Miller
I've been having alot of luck with openvpn it's ssl based rather than ipsec. I have found it to be easier to setup and less confusing and it has clients for various platforms including windows...which is not always the easiest platform to use IPSEC with unless you go with a commercial client.

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my router/gateway which is dyndns enabled, how do I get to my ip on the server, I need to mount the servers nfs export throught the router. I setup the correct ports for nfs to foreward, is that it? If I can do that it would

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/27/05, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having alot of luck with openvpn it's ssl based rather thanipsec.I have found it to be easier to setup and less confusing andit has clients for various platforms including windows...which is notalways the easiest platform to use IPSEC