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

[Andrew Denner]

I haven't started yet, so no... OpenVpn seemed like a likely one.

Do you (or anyone else) have a favorite one that you would like to talk
about, or demo? I am more than willing to share time.

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:35 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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