1. Flash a router with the latest Openwrt firmware (I used Kamikaze 8.09)
2. Install the openvpn, empty and ntpclient packages
3. Configure the router as a wireless client, adding a wifi interface with DHCP.
4. Add a VPN interface using tap0 as the phisical interface (I used openvpn with tap not tun)
5. configure the firewall rules to allow traffic on the VPN interface and add MASQ to enable NAT.
6. using SCP/SSH create a /etc/openvpn directory and add your config files.
7. Create a /etc/init.d/openvpn-client file with the following (edit as needed):
   
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
START=95
start () {
logger -t "openvpn" "starting openvpn-client"
empty -f -i in -o out openvpn --daemon --config /etc/openvpn/VPN_config_file.conf
empty -w -i out -o in "Username:" "username\n"
empty -w -i out -o in "assword:" "password\n"
}
stop () {
logger -t "openvpn" "stopping openvpn-client"
killall openvpn
killall empty
sleep 3
}
8. Do a chmod a+x /etc/init.d/openvpn-client and enable it
9. Make sure the NTP client is working
10. Disable DHCP server on VPN and WIFI interfaces
11. Add DHCP option 6 with dns servers of your vpn provider on the LAN interface. Otherwise dns requests will pass through the router to your ISPs DNS servers.
12. apply settings and reboot

Some additional notes:

empty was used to pass the username and password to openvpn without having to recompile openvpn with save-password support. If your server only uses key authentication this is not required.

This writeup was done from memory so some details may be missing. I’ve had bad experiences with using SIP over wifi in the passed so I was very surprised at how well the voip call worked over the openvpn wifi tunnel.

I don’t really post on a regular basis anymore now that there are other outlets to inform people of personal random thoughts, i.e. Twitter / Facebook. The blog is just an easy way of posting my findings that I think may be usefull to other people. The truth is that a wiki may be a bit better, however I’ve got too much stuff in this database to warrent a switch to a completely new platform.


#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn openvpn –config /etc/openvpn/configforclient.conf
expect “*Username:*”
send “userhere\r”
expect “*Password:*”
send “passhere\r”
interact


Just replace userhere and passhere with your vpn username and password. Saving your login credentials in plain text may be a security risk. Keep that in mind!
You also have to have the expect package installed on your computer.

A new windows GUI that uses the manager interface. This means that you can theoretically use it with split privilages allowing you to use Openvpn from a non admin windows account.

The script is written in php and executed by cron every half hour. Basically it uses the php imap_header function to check for email and if there are 1 or more unseen messages it places a .call file in the asterisk spool directory.

I want to test the script for a while before posting it just to make sure that it works without any problems.

The only real reason I am writing something right now is because I just upgraded the wordpress blogging engine and wanted to see if everything is still working.

1. Do a regular keyword search on craigslist.org for the item you are looking for.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the results page and right click on the RSS button.
   A menu should appear.
3. If you are using Firefox click on Copy link Location or Copy Shortcut if you are using Internet Explorer.

   

4. Go to www.rssfwd.com , Paste into their URL subscribe box and click Submit.

   

5. Enter your email address and follow the instructions at rssfwd.com

To receive updates as text messages on your cell phone use www.pingie.com in step 4.
Another alternative is to use www.4info.net service.

If you are searching for multiple items or several different spelling combinations it may be easier to use something called an RSS reader.