[CentOS] Howto create a VPN connection on desktop (CentOS 6)

Mark Weaver mweaver at compinfosystems.com
Wed Jul 13 16:28:57 UTC 2011


On 7/13/2011 8:09 AM, Tommy E Craddock Jr wrote:
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> On Jul 13, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Mark Weaver<mweaver at compinfosystems.com>  wrote:
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>> On 7/12/2011 9:31 PM, Tommy E Craddock Jr wrote:
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>>> On a side note, I use this for iOS and OpenVPN:
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>>> http://www.guizmovpn.com/
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>>> <http://www.guizmovpn.com/>Works well.
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>>> Tommy Craddock
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>> I apologize for this being a bit off-topic, and I ask this of some
>> clients when they want to access their Citrix servers from their
>> iPhones, but why would one want to do something of this nature on a
>> device that you'd literally need binoculars to be able to see the screen?
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>> For a short time I dabbled with an SSH app on my Droid X so that I could
>> connect to and interact with Linux servers that I've deployed, but found
>> it all but impossible to see the screen thus rendering the application
>> nothing more than something taking up space on my device. Now, it's a
>> different story if the device is an iPad or Galaxy tablet device, but a
>> phone?
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> I don't use an iPhone myself, just the iPad, so it's come in handy when on a friends/work mates wifi and wanting to check email, access content on home LAN etc.  On rare occasion I use free wifi, will also use VPN for all traffic.
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> I also do the same with my R2D2 Droid ie connect thru VPN. I don't trust other peoples network too much.  View most as the seedy part of town where I make sure my doors are locked when I park.
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> Most of the time tho, I just use Artoo's wifi hotspot for wifi access for the iPad and VPN traffic on the iPad.
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> Tommy C.

now that makes sense.

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Mark Weaver
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