[Cialug] Next Meeting 4/19 - Sudoers and Auditd

[David Champion]

Do we know which VPN tools are going to be discussed?

-dc


On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> Ooh, I wish I could be there for this meeting topic.  I recently set up a
> VPN on my DigitalOcean VPS using OpenVPN and RSA key pairs to fix a Netflix
> problem.*  I also use SSH tunnels to let me access a mysql database from my
> phone when I want to add or delete an email alias when I'm away from my
> computer.
>
> I like having a couple of VPNs available if at all possible.  One using
> the standard ports and UDP and one using port 443 and TCP (this one will
> generally get you out of a network that tries to clumsily block VPN
> traffic, but TCP is a bad choice for VPN traffic and can suffer from
> performance issues).
>
> Have fun!
>
> -- Matt
>
> * - I was trying to download a series to my phone for offline viewing on
> my 75/20 Mbps connection, but was barely getting 300 KB/s when it was
> working, and it kept stalling for long periods of time.  After setting up
> the VPN and trying again, I was getting 3~5 MB/s.  This showed me that
> either my ISP is limiting Netflix traffic or they had set up their own
> Netflix proxy server that has serious performance issues.  Either way,
> routing my phone's traffic through the VPN got me around my ISP's
> throttling or performance issues.  I also found that temporarily routing my
> whole LAN's traffic through the VPN (thank god for OpenVPN+dd-wrt) would
> fix some of the random connection issues we were having when using the
> chromecast to watch Netflix on the TV.
>
> Sent from my android device.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:04
> Subject: [Cialug] Next Meeting 4/19 - Sudoers and Auditd
>
> The next LUG meeting will be this Wednesday (4/19) at the Area 515
> MakerSpace. The topic of the night will be setting up your own VPN for Fun
> and (Lack of ISP) Profit
>
> Where: Area 515 MakerSpace,1731 Grand Ave Des Moines, IA 50309 (
> https://goo.gl/maps/neG7ppqudjz)
> When: 4/19 at 7:00 PM
>
> Also be thinking of topics to present as well as people who are willing to
> present them for upcoming meetings.
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