20 Aug 09 Linux NAT Masquerading HOWTO

Here’s a really quick rundown on setting up masquerading. You’d use this to share one internet connection between multiple local network machines. It’s what most regular ‘routers’ that your ISP sends out do and it’s really easy to set up under Linux in it’s most simplest form
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Tags: iptables, ip_forward, Linux, masquerade, masquerading, modprobe, nat, postrouting

15 Feb 09 Linux PPTP (Poptop) VPN Setup with MPPE and MPPC

Here’s a quick guide that I write as I’m setting up PPTP/MPPE/MPPC on a Linux server. My preferred VPN technology is OpenVPN mainly because it’s so quick and easy to set up and use, however in some cases PPTP is required chiefly when the Client wants to use the inbuilt Windows VPN capabilities rather than having to deploy 3rd party software.

My server is a Debian (of course) etch machine, with 2.6.24 (from source) kernel. My client is Windows XP Pro SP3.
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Tags: 2.6.24, debian, iptables, kernel, Linux, masquerade, mppc, mppe, patch, ppp, pppd, pptp, pptpd, VPN

05 Oct 08 APNIC Box – Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 3 – Installing Debian, Prebuilt Disk Image

Follow on from 01 Oct 08 APNIC Box – Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 2

The device runs a 2.4.30 kernel on a debian woody (mipsel) environment. If anyone can contribute anything for 2.6.x and debian etch, that would be great.

In this part, I’m going to provide a download link to a prebuilt image which you can write directly onto your own CF card with dd or similar tool. I’m also going to provide a step by step to installing debian yourself without my prebuilt disk image.

Prebuilt image is here:

The prebuilt image also contains a number of scripts and tools that I’ll comment on and come to in later parts.

Now installation instructions:
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Tags: 532a, apnicbox, apt-get, atftpd, CF, compile, cross compile, Custom Kernel, dd, debian, dhcpd, dhcpd.conf installer, forward, initrd, initrd.gz, iptables, ip_forward, kernel, Linux, linuxrc, masquerade, mikrotik, mipsel, mkfs, mknod, mount, partition, prebuild image, routerboard, routerboard 532a, scripts, sed, tftpd, vmlinux, wget

15 Sep 08 Quick Linux and Windows OpenVPN HOWTO and tutorial, including VPN routing

OpenVPN is a popular Windows/Linux VPN Server/Client pair. I think there’s a separate GUI available for it if you’re so minded. This howto will cover command line usage only.

I’ll provide example configuration based on a Linux server and a Windows client, however the same applies pretty easily if you wanted to mix and match.

On debian, apt-get install openvpn. On any other linux distro, use your own package manager or alternatively download from source and compile.
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Tags: 10.8.0.1, 10.8.0.2, apt-get, client, compile, compression, daemon, daemonize, debian, default gateway, distro, established, forward, generate, interface, IP address, iptables, ip_forward, keepalive, Linux, linux server, masquerade, nat, openvpn, package manager, ping, related, remote, route, route add, route delete, route print, routing, secret key, server, source, tap, tcp, tcpdump, traffic, tun, udp, VPN, vpn client, vpn server, windows, windows client