[SGVLUG] Help us find speakers/presenters

[Rae Yip]

I think the VPN talk would benefit from a month or so to prepare. I
don't think anyone in the LUG has used more than one or two different
VPN systems, and it would be really nice if the preso covered at least
three and compared them in-depth.

-Rae.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Dan Buthusiem <dan.buthusiem at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have plenty. Netgear WNDR3700 v2. I guess I'll make time to also try
> OpenWRT, since it supports IPsec with OpenSwan.
>
> Sent from mobile.
>
> On Sep 27, 2011 8:28 AM, "Matthew Campbell" <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can bring a router.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Dan Buthusiem <dan.buthusiem at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Since our next meeting is rapidly approaching, does that mean I'm doing
>>> VPN?
>>> I consider myself more of a noob, but I'm willing to slap something
>>> together. If anyone has a router with DDWRT, I can definitely show a
>>> basic
>>> working setup. Feedback?
>>>
>>> Sent from mobile.
>>>
>>> On Sep 18, 2011 9:44 PM, "James McDuffie" <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:
>>>> I'd love to hear someone talk about mesh VPNs such as tinc or n2n. I
>>>> haven't used them but they seem to be recommended for virtual private
>>>> servers since they only use bandwidth from peer to peer, not peer to
>>>> server to peer like OpenVPN would.
>>>>
>>>> Relevant:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://v2.lowendtalk.com/questions/2/vpn-between-low-end-boxes-what-is-the-best-option
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09/17/2011 02:25 PM, Dan Buthusiem wrote:
>>>>> I noticed a few of us have Linux boxes of some type running VPN servers
>>>>> (I have a PPTP VPN running on a Netgear router with DDWRT, for
>>>>> instance). Anyone feel like collaborating on a VPN talk? I know I've
>>>>> seen a few of you at meetings using OpenVPN and Socks proxies over ssh.
>>>>> (poke poke)
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been looking at running OpenSwan for an IPSec VPN, or switching to
>>>>> OpenVPN, but my networking knowledge isn't quite enough to understand
>>>>> the config files. I think all if us can stand to walk away with
>>>>> something new to play with.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from mobile.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 17, 2011 10:50 AM, "matti" <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com
>>>>> <mailto:mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > This is a call to help find speakers/presenters for us
>>>>> > ( www.sgvlug.org <http://www.sgvlug.org> )
>>>>> >
>>>>> > We've currently got an open schedule.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Please let me know if you have any good leads.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > thanks!
>>>>> > matti
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ps - any linux/open source/eff related topic
>>>>> > is welcome ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Campbell
>> Storage Solution Consultant
>> Storage Platform Engineering Management
>> IT | Kaiser Permanente
>