VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom
I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora
firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site.
That site will be the place I present services to the world;
httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers"
and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net;
if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the
colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address,
and I am not opening any inbound ports.
There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive
are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html )
and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that
one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have
simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth,
and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the
main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail.
Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is
there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to
break with FC1 or FC2?
Keith
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KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
6 months, 2 weeks
ATA2:00: link is slow to respond....
by Angelo Moreschini
Hi,
my computer boot only in emergency mode ...
Looking the journalctl (command journalctl -xb), I found (in thejournalctl
) these lines in red color :
ATA2:00: link is slow to respond....
(and after..)
ATA200: SRST failed (erro 16)
That seem indicate that it is a problem to access the HDs..
I found a possible solution to the problem in this post:
http://codeverge.com/opensuse.org.help.install/-solved-ata1-srst-failed-e...
There is wrote that :...the problem can depend by the physic set up of the
HD (as "master", "slave", "single drive", ...): this set up can be done by
changing the position of a jumper on the HD...
I know that, in the past time, the HDs had to be set physically in this
way.., but recently I never heart anymore that the modern HD need this
operation..
So actually I don't care anymore of the configuration of the HDs
(my HD is Toshiba 1 TB that I bought few mounts ago).
I would like to have a confirmation that what I read in the post is only an
obsolete information and, in any case, I would like to know also what I can
do to go around in my problem..
>From the command line: ls /dev/sd* I get:
give me this input :
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
Thank you
regards
Angelo
3 years, 3 months
nc missing option -z
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
I used to use netcat to check if a particular host is up or if I have
internet connection before I run a few scripts. I would use the -z
option in particular. But now I see that has been removed:
$ nc -z imap.gmail.com 993 && sync-my-email.sh
ncat: invalid option -- 'z'
Here is the excerpt from the old manual page:
-z Specifies that nc should just scan for listening daemons, without
sending any data to them. It is an error to use this option in
conjunction with the -l option.
Any ideas what happened to it? What can I use as replacement?
Thanks for any ideas.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
3 years, 6 months
F21: Thunderbird insists on calling Fedora list messages junk!
by William Mattison
Good afternoon,
Most messages received from this fedora list are labelled junk by
Thunderbird. This is even though I whitelisted "From" =
"users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org". Actually, I have this problem
both in my Fedora-21 and my windows-7 systems. Any ideas? Surely
messages from this list are not junk!
thanks,
Bill.
3 years, 10 months
Fedora on MacBook Air 7,1
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
Failed to install F22 on a MacBook Air 7,1 end of July. I think the
problem was coming from the new SSD drive/system which does not have a
proper driver yet. The machine is not mine but I'll be doing the
installation :-/
Any idea, hint or news about this?
Thank you.
Fred
4 years, 7 months
How to disable kaudit???
by JD
Huge amounts of audit output in /var/log/messages.
How can we stop it? or completely disable it.
4 years, 7 months
drag konsole tabs
by Maurizio Marini
Hello, sorry for lamer question:
w/ F22 I am not able anymore to drug konsole tab to change their order, often I
need to have 2 tabs one after the other
It's a feature anymore available or should I drink less wine?
thnx
PS: I do drink water only :P
4 years, 7 months
bluetooth applet for XFCE
by Aleksandar Kostadinov
Hello,
any idea how should I manage bluetooth in fedora 21+? I see no bluetooth
applet available in XFCE and feeling like in stone age with the command
line bluetoothctl.
Thank you,
Aleksandar
4 years, 7 months
Thunderbird Opening Links
by R. G. Newbury
In a moment of insanity, I installed google-chrome on fedora21. The
Chrome installation made chrome the default and changed the
network-protocol handlers in Thunderbird to 'chrome'. I have since
removed google-chrome and manually edited the entries in TB back to
firefox. I think I have properly set firefox as the default browser.
BUT, when I click on a link in an email in tbird, Nothing happens (even
if firefox is open).
Getting tired of copying link location, and pasting into the address bar.
Can anyone assist? My google-fu produces nothing.
--
R. Geoffrey Newbury
4 years, 7 months
