To anticipate and prevent
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…
Dont. No, really, I’m serious. Don’t bother installing OpenVPN on Windows Vista. It just doesn’t work. Apparently as soon as it gets to installing the network drivers, Vista goes down HARD (Blue screen). Which interestingly enough, is the first time I’ve seen vista crash (though it has frozen a few times). If your wondering, I…