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Ask Soylent: How Best to Set Up a VPN?

posted by mrcoolbp on Monday April 14 2014, @05:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-VPN-are-belong-to-us dept.

Gaaark writes:

Hello fellow Soylentils. Colour me a nice Soylent Green Canadian who up until recently has only worried somewhat about security. I use linux (mostly Ubuntu) and in the past I have had time to work at config files and do google searches to solve my problems. Today i have far less time to do these things. My question is: can anyone (practically) hand me a good, easy, linux-friendly, and hopefully cheap VPN solution? Extra kudos to those with free options.

Canada seems to be heading in the direction of the United States and I am beginning to worry that my internet is being taken from me. Can anyone come up with a solution to keep my internetting private and my downloads from being pried into? (I've heard VPN is the way to go, but searching for solutions leaves me wondering if I'm getting scammed in the process.)

Thanks in advance for the help.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by isostatic on Monday April 14 2014, @06:03PM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday April 14 2014, @06:03PM (#31437) Journal

    A VPN to where? Where do you want your unencrypted traffic to emerge?

    I also run linux, I connect to one of my work's private networks in the uk by typing "bcnconnect". This runs up vpnc-connect, which uses a conf file with the ipsec details in. It then sets /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time to a lowish number to get around the dumb firewalls.

    My home VPN I'm sad to say is pptp. Moving to SSTP is on my list of things to do.

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  • (Score: 2) by ls671 on Tuesday April 15 2014, @09:15AM

    by ls671 (891) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 15 2014, @09:15AM (#31715) Homepage

    Is either of your VPNs using OpenSSL? ;-)

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    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday April 15 2014, @02:17PM

      by isostatic (365) on Tuesday April 15 2014, @02:17PM (#31805) Journal

      IPSec isn't OpenSSL, is it?
      My https server is Ubuntu 10.04- so running an old version (0.9.8) that's unaffected. Laptop is the same.
      Mikrotik's ssl library is also unaffected

      • (Score: 2) by ls671 on Wednesday April 16 2014, @12:35AM

        by ls671 (891) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 16 2014, @12:35AM (#32092) Homepage

        I thought you may also use other types of VPNs.

        Anyway, I was just noting that some VPNs are vulnerable if OpenSSL isn't patched. OpenVPN is one of them.

        Take care,

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