<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Presumably there would be no problem running these things in a virtual box running CentOS? My server is Xubuntu (Yes it has a GUI because I use it for MythTV). I don't want to do any distro updates on any of my computers because I then end up with MythTV database compatibility issues. Also I'd like to use OpenVPN on a remote server so I might get a choice of distro there.<br><br>Brian<br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alice Kaerast <kaerast@computergentle.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Brian <bradlug@techchico.org.uk><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, 28 June, 2011 12:18:16<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] July Wednesday meeting<br></font><br>Yeah the certificates can be a problem, as can the IPtables setup.<br>OpenVPN itself isn't too difficult. I've added a slide on OpenSSL.<br><br>I'm using Centos as the server and Debian (Crunchbang actually) as the<br>client. My main problem was that Centos had compression turned on by<br>default but Debian didn't, and it took a while to spot that was the<br>problem (it appeared to connect fine, just didn't work after<br>connection).<br><br>Alice<br><br><br>On 28 June 2011 11:49, Brian <<a ymailto="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk" href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> When I tried to get openvpn working it was, immsmc, the generation of<br>> certificates that failed.<br>> So, perhaps that subject
could be covered as well some time. Also what<br>> distro will you use?<br>> It seems to be inherent bugs, in some distros, that become stumbling blocks.<br>> Brian<br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> From: Alice Kaerast <<a ymailto="mailto:kaerast@computergentle.com" href="mailto:kaerast@computergentle.com">kaerast@computergentle.com</a>><br>> To: Brian <<a ymailto="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk" href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>><br>> Sent: Mon, 27 June, 2011 23:27:09<br>> Subject: Re: [Bradford] July Wednesday meeting<br>><br>> On 27 June 2011 20:27, Brian <<a ymailto="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk" href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>>> Truecrypt: It is only a basic introduction. I am using both a password and<br>>> a<br>>> keyfile in the video.<br>><br>> sure, which I guess is what
you want from an instructional video. The<br>> 'why's and use-cases are probably best answered in-person anyway.<br>><br>> What did you want covering in terms of OpenVPN? I've thrown together<br>> a basic intro <<a href="https://github.com/kaerast/OpenVPN-Presentation" target="_blank">https://github.com/kaerast/OpenVPN-Presentation</a>> with<br>> the idea of winging it on the night depending on what people want<br>> covering. A practical session might be a bit awkward to do since it<br>> would depend on first setting up OpenSSL certificates which is an<br>> entire topic in itself. Can show off the nice Network Manager gui<br>> though and demonstrate connecting, possibly debug anybody's problems.<br>><br>> Alice<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bradford mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk"
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