Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-09 Thread Tom Buskey
A little Google on : data recovery shredded stasihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder http://www.heingartner.com/shred/Picking_Up_the_Pieces.htmhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/18/shredded_stasi_documents_could/ http://www.churchstreet-technology.com/On 2/8/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:31:22PM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: In this scenario, the client will run an OpenVPN client to get into the private network. The OpenVPN server would be easiest to add to the NAT box - that's what I do for my own setup in fact. The reason is that machines on

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 09 February 2006 08:52 am, Mark Komarinski wrote: Is there an OpenVPN server for the Linksys WRT54G? The firmware I saw implied it was client-only. -Mark The software is the same - different config file. If it can do one, then it should be able to do both. That said, I have no

Re: Video Capture in Linux

2006-02-09 Thread Lawrence Tilly
Ok...I have come to the conclusion that a USB solution in my price range is probably not going to work under Linux. The devices I am finding all appear to need Win-only software to function and often do not even appear as an attached device. I found one discussion of the Hauppauge USB solution

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/8/06, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the examples for OpenVPN that I've seen assume that the OpenVPN server is on both the public and private network. According to Ye Olde FAQ, this should work. See: http://openvpn.net/faq.html#singlenic Now, your subject line says

Re: Notebook Network Issues

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Ben said: Boot the machine with the card removed. Check the logs and/or dmesg for problems with PCMCIA. 'dmesg | grep -i pcmcia' came back empty So I tried restarting PCMCIA: /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart hutting down PCMCIA services: done. Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr [2579]:

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 9, 2006, at 09:38, Ben Scott wrote: However, crypto is resource intensive -- especially CPU intensive. The WRT54G is a fairly bitty box; trying to use it for that may drag down performance on everything. Just for a frame of reference, the WRT54G has a 216MHz MIPS CPU, and the

Re: Notebook Network Issues

2006-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 9, 2006, at 09:55, Thomas M. Albright wrote: /etc/modprobe.conf says: alias eth0 tulip but trying 'insmod eth0' returns insmod: can't read 'eth0': no such file or directory and trying 'insmod tulip' returns insmod: can't read 'tulip': no such file or directory I think depmod can

IT Documentation Engine for Non-Geeks?

2006-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
Does anyone have recommendations for documentation engines for non-geeks to track IT stuff? For example, Bob, Mary and Joe in Marketing use the shared IMAP account 'marketing' to handle e-mails. There needs to be a place that those three folks can go look up what the password is for the

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/8/06, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the examples for OpenVPN that I've seen assume that the OpenVPNserver is on both the public and private network.That's not what I'm doing as my OpenVPN server is sitting behind my NAT box and has only oneinterface - that on the private

Re: IT Documentation Engine for Non-Geeks?

2006-02-09 Thread Larry Cook
Bill, As much as I like the GNHLUG Twiki, that's not it, it scares people from _this_ group away. I'm curious, what about it scares people. Is it just the text formatting syntax? TWiki 4.0 now includes a beta version of a WYSIWYG editor. Larry

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/9/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, crypto is resource intensive -- especially CPU intensive. The WRT54G is a fairly bitty box; trying to use it for that may drag down performance on everything. Just for a frame of reference, the WRT54G has a 216MHz MIPS CPU, and the

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:39, Thomas Charron wrote: Currently, at the house we have no VPN capabilities beyond SSH tunneling, but a definate goal is to provide full fledged VPN connectivity. Also note the current release of OpenSSH provides layer2/3 vpn functionality. I haven't set it up yet.

Re: IT Documentation Engine for Non-Geeks?

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/9/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm leaning towards a Wiki but would welcome other suggestions. Check out the Plone server SLUG has running their site (http://slug.gnhlug.org). It's very GUI for a web app, and it's ownership-orientated approach well likely work well in a

Re: IT Documentation Engine for Non-Geeks?

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:09:21AM -0500, Larry Cook wrote: Bill, As much as I like the GNHLUG Twiki, that's not it, it scares people from _this_ group away. I'm curious, what about it scares people. Is it just the text formatting syntax? TWiki 4.0 now includes a beta version of a

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/9/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note the current release of OpenSSH provides layer2/3 vpn functionality. Interesting. A quick check shows that it's still TCP based. Running a layer 3 tunnel over TCP tends to suck a lot in a number of situations (lots of UDP; packet

Re: IT Documentation Engine for Non-Geeks?

2006-02-09 Thread Lawrence Tilly
I use TWiki for some small-team collaboration and it is serving us fantasticly. Dragon skin is pretty minimal and the skins are easily customized. You may also want to check XWiki. It's a Java-based solution developed by someone that used to be a TWiki fan. Very active mailing list and is

Re: IT Documentation Engine for Non-Geeks?

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/9/06, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basic Auth can't be saved by my browser, so I lose my credentials and am too lazy to look them up, so I can no longer edit the Wiki. Which Wiki? The GNHLUG site? There's password reset info on the site. Or just create a new account

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 9, 2006, at 11:10, Ben Scott wrote: Unfortunately, that's not really much help. First of all, clock rates are a really poor way to compare CPUs of different architectures. If you have straight integer code (Rijndael is all table lookups, shifts, and XOR's) and the CPU's are of

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/9/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:39, Thomas Charron wrote: Currently, at the house we have no VPN capabilities beyond SSH tunneling, but a definate goal is to provide full fledged VPN connectivity.Also note the current release of OpenSSH provides layer2/3

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 9, 2006, at 15:56, Thomas Charron wrote: Aye, I've used it before. Cool - any gotchas? As it's only been out a week I haven't had the pleasure yet - thomas.geekpoints++ . But does it do Windows? ;-) I'm sorry, I thought I was on a different mailing list. :) If that is one

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:26:19PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 9, 2006, at 15:56, Thomas Charron wrote: Aye, I've used it before. Cool - any gotchas? As it's only been out a week I haven't had the pleasure yet - thomas.geekpoints++ . But does it do Windows? ;-) I'm

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/9/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 9, 2006, at 15:56, Thomas Charron wrote: Aye, I've used it before.Cool - any gotchas?As it's only been out a week I haven't had the pleasure yet - thomas.geekpoints++ . It works well, but it can be tricky to set up. Basically, it uses a

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread John Abreau
Thomas Charron wrote: Hehe, no, I went looking at it doesn't look like there is any Win32 solution that's compatible with OpenSSH VPN tunneling. It was more a curiosity sake on my side. Most of the time we're out of the office (away from home), we're on laptops running Win32. I know, I

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread John Abreau
Thomas Charron wrote: Hehe, no, I went looking at it doesn't look like there is any Win32 solution that's compatible with OpenSSH VPN tunneling. It was more a curiosity sake on my side. Most of the time we're out of the office (away from home), we're on laptops running Win32. I know, I

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/9/06, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, OpenVPN itself works fine on Windows. The TUN driver doesn't work on Windows, so you need to use the TAP driver instead. I'm using the TUN driver on Win32 with OpenVPN 2.0.5 without any trouble (that I know of). -- Ben Fairly new to

Help build the new GNHLUG Internet server

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
Hello GNHLUG! A project has been started to enhance GNHLUG's Internet presence. The initial focus of this project will be to configure and deploy a new server. The plan is the server will eventually host the GNHLUG web and mailing list servers, as well as be home to future GNHLUG ideas. To

followup on m0n0wall

2006-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
This is a followup on the MonadLUG meeting a few months back on open source firewalls. I was particularly impressed with m0n0wall from the talk and have installed it at a small office and it works great. They have an XML config file, boot from CD (config on floppy/flash) and a very nice GUI.