Re: [dubailug] Hylafax Rocks

[Akshay Lamba]

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Thats it i've had it! I've been thinking about giving hylafax a go for a while now but have always put it off cos in my 8 yrs of using linux i've never configured a modem (i know i know). Been always wary of that considering that all my boxes have winmodems. Would any nice soul offer to direct me to a "dummies guide"?   Once i have the modem in place I would do the hylafax bit myself.   PS: hmmm....beer....(*hinting brad*)....   A   ________________ Original message ________________ Subject: [dubailug] Hylafax Rocks Author: "Brad Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22nd September 2006 8:29:45   G'day mobsters, I finally got sick of having to drive to the office every day just to check the fax machine, remove the junk faxes and replenish the paper and toner in the sodding thing.. So... I plugged a cheap and nasty external modem I had lying around into the back of the server in there (Ubuntu 6.06) and installed hylafax and OpenVPN. Now wherever I am in the world my faxes get delivered straight to my laptop as pdf via E-mail, and I can fax straight from the PC as gfax pretends to be a printer in Gnome. Wicked stuff.. Now all I need to do is get another mobile and permanently divert the office phone and I'll not actually need to go there at all! I'm now up to 8 OpenVPN nodes on all my various bits of kit around the place, and I have to say it just rocks being able to securely get into any machine, route anything I need to and have it penetrate all NAT devices with no modification required. I don't have to worry about dynamic dns anymore except on the OpenVPN server, and I know all my traffic is secure against eavesdropping. Even better, on other peoples networks I can completely firewall the external interfaces on the boxes as OpenVPN is an internal interface, so on the insecure network I'm not even exposing an ssh port. The box looks completely dead to all port scans and never returns a packet. Let's see NMAP fingerprint that! Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Linux operating system Linux os Hosting linux unix web Linux migration Linux operating system download Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___