The other day, I realized while I was at work that I needed some files from my Mac desktop at home. Normally, no problem, ssh into my firewall and open a tunnel to my desktop (this is better done with authpf, but that’s a post for another time), use sftp, and done. The problem is [...]
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Posted 13 August 2008
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Also tagged: apple, firewall, mac, magic packet, os x, sftp, sleep, ssh tunnel, wake, wake-on-LAN, WoL
Since I’m on my second of what will probably be 4 or 5 unslung NSLU2 “slug” units (with identical 1GB flash drives from eBay), I figured it was time to write down specific step-by-step directions, if perhaps only for my own use later. (As an aside, having the two ethernet ports on my Mac Pro [...]
Since my employer’s wireless network is unencrypted and since I use other open WiFi networks with some frequency, I’ve gotten in the habbit of tunneling everything through SSH, using the SOCKS5 proxy mechanism built in to SSH. In WinXP, there’s a nice little program called Tunnelier that makes the setup of the tunnel simple and [...]
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Posted 13 June 2008
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Also tagged: applescript, firefox, firefox system proxy, location, mac, network, network location, os x, proxy, secure shell, socks, socks proxy, socks5, socks5 proxy, ssh tunnel, system proxy, tunnel, tunnelier
The OpenBSD router machines I installed at my place and my parents’ have been failing and I’ve been doing band-aid fixes of little things as they break, but it’s annoying. My new idea is to use hardware routers, but to install one or more “slug” NSLU2 devices, unslung, inside each network to provide DNS and [...]
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Posted 17 May 2008
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Also tagged: alix, bsd, dell, dlink, dsl, ebay, gateway, linux, nslu2, openbsd, pppoe, router, slug, unslung, vpn