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How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Debian 10 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Debian 10

OpenVPN is a full-featured, open-source Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations. In this tutorial, you will set up an OpenVPN server on a Debian 10 server and then configure access to it from Windows, OS X, iOS and/or Android devices. This tutorial will keep the installation and configuration steps as simple as possible for each of these setups.

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How to Create an Intranet with OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Create an Intranet with OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04

Intranets are private networks created by organizations to ease communication and data transfers. In this tutorial you’ll configure services that are only available to clients who are connected to the VPN, including file shares and a web site, and you’ll learn how to manage access to those resources. When you’re done, you’ll have a basic intranet you can easily expand to meet your needs.

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How to Set Up a PKI Infrastructure with AD CS on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a PKI Infrastructure with AD CS on Windows Server 2016

Introduction Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) on Windows Server 2016 provides a complete Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) platform for issuing and managing digital certificates used by SSL/TLS, smart card authentication, email signing, IPsec, code signing, and more. A two-tier PKI hierarchy — an offline Root CA and an online Issuing CA — is the […]

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How to Configure StrongSwan IPsec on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure StrongSwan IPsec on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Configure StrongSwan IPsec on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, […]

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Common Problems 115092

RHEL 8 Cockpit Web Console Unreachable from Network

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2020 Affected versions: 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & […]

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Common Problems 113525

Windows Server 2012 R2 — IPsec site-to-site tunnel renegotiation fails after certificate renewal on RRAS — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 9 June 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~2 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related […]

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How to Configure Network Load Balancing on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network Load Balancing on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Network Load Balancing on Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Load Balancing (NLB) distributes incoming TCP/IP traffic across multiple servers in a cluster, providing both scalability and fault tolerance for stateless services such as web servers, terminal servers, and VPN endpoints. Unlike Failover Clustering, which is designed for stateful services with shared storage, […]

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