G'day mobsters,
I finally got sick of having to drive to the office every day just to check the
fax machine, remove
the junk faxes and replenish the paper and toner in the sodding thing..
So... I plugged a cheap and nasty external modem I had lying around into the
back of the server in
there (Ubuntu 6.06) and installed hylafax and OpenVPN. Now wherever I am in the
world my faxes get
delivered straight to my laptop as pdf via E-mail, and I can fax straight from
the PC as gfax
pretends to be a printer in Gnome.
Wicked stuff.. Now all I need to do is get another mobile and permanently
divert the office phone
and I'll not actually need to go there at all!
I'm now up to 8 OpenVPN nodes on all my various bits of kit around the place,
and I have to say it
just rocks being able to securely get into any machine, route anything I need
to and have it
penetrate all NAT devices with no modification required. I don't have to worry
about dynamic dns
anymore except on the OpenVPN server, and I know all my traffic is secure
against eavesdropping.
Even better, on other peoples networks I can completely firewall the external
interfaces on the
boxes as OpenVPN is an internal interface, so on the insecure network I'm not
even exposing an ssh
port. The box looks completely dead to all port scans and never returns a
packet. Let's see NMAP
fingerprint that!
Brad
--
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
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