To anticipate and prevent
For our office we have Exchange 2003 running, and it has crap for AntiSpam (though I really did try). I turned up the sensitivity on exchange, but ended up with more false positives and very few additional spams caught. So I spent the entire day researching new AntiSpam filtering gateways. I finally decided that I…
So, recently we switched our firewall/routing system from a Cisco PIX to a Linux based firewall w/ IPTables. It just so happens that no one has been doing major work with any external vendors. The two day’s we’ve been trying to do some work over PPTP VPN and haven’t been able to very well. The…
Yesterday I wrote about how to get a Windows client up on OpenVPN via service. But what if you want to deploy a number of these and don’t want to write up 10 page “HOWTO Install” docs? Well, that is exactly what I thought, so I automated the proccess. Here’s what I did: Put together…
If your like me coming from the PPTP frame of mind, you only dialed the OpenVPN connection on the clients when it was needed. This is good, but OpenVPN includes its own service which makes it all the more awesome. As soon as you client machine starts (in this case windows) so does OpenVPN (if…
Ah, I have discovered the wonderful warm and fuzzy feeling that is OpenVPN. Now its not that I’ve never heard of OpenVPN before, I just never really got around to using it. The oddest piece of OVPN is that there is no “server” or “client” software. They have a single piece of software that simply…
So I went to setup Squid 2.6 for a passive proxy. Apparently the geniuses changed around the configuration so the old style of using the “httpd_” configs no longer works. Granted its much simpler now, but no one warned me!!! Bastards! Now you just add “transparent” to the end of the http_port statement. Detailed version…