Re: [Server-devel] openVPN on the XS
Hi Sameer Here in Nicaragua at Fundación Zamora Terán, we are using openVPN on XS in client mode, and the openVPN Server is on the main office on a Centos 5.7 server, because on some school we have a 3G Modem Connection behind a proxy server at ISP, with the VPN tunnel, we can access on to XS by ssh and put content, monitoring the XS with Nagios. And also we redirect the all dns queries on this way: 1. XO(172.18.96.1) 2. XS(172.18.0.1)-(10.8.0.11) 3. openVPNServer(10.8.0.1) 4. openDNS(208.67.222.222) For now that is the way that we use openVPN with XS. Regards -- German R S On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Hello Serverheads! We've been using openVPN on the XS in India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com) and Jamaica (http://olpcjamaica.org.jm). OpenVPN runs in client mode on the XS and phones home to public IP server. We have a couple of laptops with appropriate keys that also run in the client mode. openVPN runs on the server in server mode. This setup allows us to ssh into the XS from the two client laptops whenever the servers get online via DSL or GPRS/3G. openVPN takes care of the whole NAT business nicely. I know that George Hunt was trying to do this in Haiti. Not sure how far he got. We also got a suggestion to look into IPv6 tunnels (http://www.sixxs.net/tools/ayiya/). 1) Is anyone else using something like this or similar? 2) Is there a different approach to doing the same? I can put up the instructions on the wiki in a bit. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- German R S ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts
Hi, You can try the work done by Alsroot: http://gitorious.paraguayeduca.org/paraguayeduca-server is based on Ubuntu server. Regards, Carlos 2012/2/1 Abhishek Singh abhishek.si...@olenepal.org: On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too old to support this hardware. For the next XS release, Martin suggests that CentOS 6.2 (or another RHEL equivalent) is used as a base. As my contribution here will likely be limited to just this rebase, I'm prepared to accept that preference. However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent Fedora). With CentOS, the same problem as F9 is presented: no network adapter. Digging further, I see that support was added to the Linux kernel for this particular network adapter (Atheros AR8152) on February 16th, 2010. However, since CentOS 6.2 uses a kernel from 2009, it does not support this hardware. This seems excessively old for a distro that was released in December 2011, and I imagine that we will see many such problems if we run with this. With this in mind, is there still a strong preference to go with CentOS, or would a more recent Fedora (e.g. 16/17?) be a better choice? Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel Hi Daniel, Moving to CentOS or some enterprise Linux makes sense for rebasing XS on but given the limitations with hardware compatibility, this might be a blocker. New hardware are being used at deployments so probably we might have to stick with newer versions of Fedora. -- Abhishek Singh System Engineer Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal साझा शिक्षा ई-पाटी http://www.olenepal.org Tel: +977-1-551 ext. 102 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Carlos Daniel Garay Departamento de Tecnología, Paraguay Educa. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] openVPN on the XS
Hi Sameer, Yes, Adam Holt and I worked together to use multiple clients. I found that Amazon makes available a free year of a micro installation of OpenVPN Access Server. After the first year, it looks to cost on the order of $20 per year. George On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Hello Serverheads! We've been using openVPN on the XS in India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com) and Jamaica (http://olpcjamaica.org.jm). OpenVPN runs in client mode on the XS and phones home to public IP server. We have a couple of laptops with appropriate keys that also run in the client mode. openVPN runs on the server in server mode. This setup allows us to ssh into the XS from the two client laptops whenever the servers get online via DSL or GPRS/3G. openVPN takes care of the whole NAT business nicely. I know that George Hunt was trying to do this in Haiti. Not sure how far he got. We also got a suggestion to look into IPv6 tunnels (http://www.sixxs.net/tools/ayiya/). 1) Is anyone else using something like this or similar? 2) Is there a different approach to doing the same? I can put up the instructions on the wiki in a bit. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
