Alex Earl said:
>>> Anyway, I am trying to setup OpenVPN on my system at home
>>> so that I can VPN from work and ssh and so forth. Does anyone know of
>>> a good howto on configuring OpenVPN or anyone gone through the same
>>> thing?
>>
>> As another response said, I use ssh. We'll see what others have to
>> say.
>
> My workplace blocks all ports except VPN, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, so I
> figure the best way to get out is with VPN. Also, my ISP (Cox) seems to
> block incoming HTTP requests, so I can't pipe SSH through port 80 like I
> originally wanted. Anyone have a good solution? I noticed there are
> quite a few Cox users on the list.
Setup SSH to accept connections on port 23 or 21 (telnet or ftp). Then
from work do ssh -p 23 hostname or scp -P 23 hostname and you should be
good to go.
>>> Also, what is the main distro used by the PLUG or is there one and
>>> such? Just wondering! Thanks!
>>
>> PLUG's main distro. I love that fact that we can to polls on our
>> website now.
>> This is the recently ended poll, "Which is your preferred Linux
>> distribution?":
>>
>> http://plug.phoenix.az.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file=index&req=results&pollID=6&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>>
>> We don't have a group "preferred" or "official" one. There are plenty
>> of users to go around for whatever one you want to run.
>
> I actually already run gentoo on several boxes, I was just trying to
> feel out what the group liked the most. The group I participated with in
> Utah was a very Debian oriented organization and were kind of "elitest"
> in Debian.
As a whole there is no preferred. Seems to be lots of folks answer
Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo and SuSE questions here. I think what
happens is after people have been around a while they become "not afraid
of Debian". After they actually use it and get comfortable, the usually
don't want to deal with much else. Therefore it seems be Debian users
tend to be the more seasoned Linux folks. For right or wrong. Hopefully
you will not see any elitism (which is a geek thing in general not a
distro thing). :)
> Another question, is there an IRC server for the LUG?
irc.freenode.net #plugaz ? iirc (or something similar do a regex for plug):)
-Derek
(text/plain)