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  • Re: CFBBS sysop going aw

    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Atreyu on Thursday, June 22, 2023 15:31:08
    Atreyu wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    Did you try out the OpenVPN wizard in Pfsense?
    I had mine working in minutes.

    I need to set up. Thanks for reminding me. I paid for a year of service
    from Private Internet Access ($40!) and am using it on my personal machine.

    I should do that this weekend. It's not hard. I could add access for
    Andrew so he can look at the BBS if needed also.

    -- Sean

    ... WinErr 008: Broken window: watch out for glass fragments.
    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Maximus/2 3.01
    * Origin: Outpost BBS - bbs.outpostbbs.net:10323 (1:18/200)
  • From Atreyu@1:229/426 to Sean Dennis on Thursday, June 22, 2023 17:20:13
    On 22 Jun 23 15:31:08, Sean Dennis said the following to Atreyu:

    I should do that this weekend. It's not hard. I could add access for Andrew so he can look at the BBS if needed also.

    You define the users, run the wizard, then give Andrew the Opvn file he then can import into his Openvpn client.

    I can't remember but I think it also automatically creates the inbound rule.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Atreyu on Friday, June 23, 2023 13:11:59
    Hello Atreyu,

    Thursday June 22 2023 17:20, you wrote to me:

    I can't remember but I think it also automatically creates the inbound rule.

    It does all of the heavy lifting for you.

    -- Sean

    ... Retirement is the time where there is plenty of it or not enough.
    --- GoldED/2 3.0.1
    * Origin: Outpost BBS - bbs.outpostbbs.net:10323 (1:18/200)
  • From Atreyu@1:229/426 to Sean Dennis on Friday, June 23, 2023 15:02:28
    On 23 Jun 23 13:11:59, Sean Dennis said the following to Atreyu:

    It does all of the heavy lifting for you.

    I'm just not entirely sold on the idea by some techs that one "should have" a Pfsense appliance as opposed to having it run on a typical name brand
    off the shelf server system or a decent high-end workstation.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Alexander Grotewohl@1:120/616 to Atreyu on Saturday, June 24, 2023 04:24:17
    On 23 Jun 2023, Atreyu said the following...

    I'm just not entirely sold on the idea by some techs that one "should have" a Pfsense appliance as opposed to having it run on a typical name brand off the shelf server system or a decent high-end workstation.

    if anything, a lot of those devices are under-powered. or have no upgrade
    path (just throw 2.5G or 10Gbit NICs in and boom, commodity PC wins).

    then again, i have friends who have (albeit older) juniper routers and other pro gear and they think all of this stuff is silly.

    i guess if the appliance saves electricity.. maybe? but i tend to have a linux machine on all the time here anyways so it's basically a wash

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (1:120/616)