[General] VPN Platform release - an opensource project

[Burhan Khalid]

Almost all of these packages can be installed in a virtual machines.

As with Untangle, Astaro will completely format the machine it is installed
on. You cannot use that machine for anything else.  Since its a highly
optimized system, you can run it on very low end hardware.

Most people use a spare computer for this task (or use a virtual machine,
which provides an additional layer of isolation).

Regards,
--
Burhan

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
<bashar at kuwaitnet.net>wrote:

>  Dear Huda,
> What the guys been mentioning here are complete systems with tons of
> features thats way more than what VPN Platform offers and as indicated
> earlier its bundled Linux as OS release or appliance which I believe an
> overkill features for anyone who wants to setup and run a VPN service for
> his users.
>
> The idea of VPN Platform is an open platform as a kick-start for any user
> or enterprise to take, install and get VPN up and running in minutes on
> your existing server or virtual machine, yet the current release modifies
> system files such as apache and iptables so if the system running other
> production things its recommended not to play with live systems :)
>
> webmin/usermin runs on ports 10000 and 20000 so using existing apache IP
> won't cause conflicts but the user download link of files what will use
> /var/www/html by default so if the IP used is already been utilized by
> apache users won't be able to download the OpenVPN archive file which
> contains the self-signed certificate to set the client up.
>
> again VPN Platform alters lots of system files so its recommended to run
> it on test server or dedicated environment to avoid any issues with your
> production server.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bashar
>
> Huda Alnasser wrote, On 02/27/2012 01:03 AM:
>
> so all what has been mentioned so far such as vpn platform, astro,
> clearaOS needs separate server to install and run? cant be installed on
> shared server?
>
> On Sunday, February 26, 2012, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Huda,
> >
> > Untangle is a platform bundled with Linux. You cannot install it
> separately, but you can run it as a virtual machine.
> > --
> >    Majed B.
> >
> > On Feb 26, 2012 11:08 PM, "Huda Alnasser" <huda.alnasser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Majed,
> >> Untangle is a complete operating system? Can't run it as a software on
> a ready server?
> >>
> >> On Saturday, February 25, 2012, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > If you want a free system to handle openVPN you can use Untangle.com
> which comes with firewall, url filtering & other features.
> >> > --
> >> >    Majed B.
> >> >
> >> > On Feb 25, 2012 8:06 PM, "Bashar Al-Abdulhadi" <bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Dear Huda,
> >> >> Many, for example any company, community, NGO or non-profit
> organization who wish to secure their users access when they are travel and
> wish to access their company's servers securely or even access the internet
> from their own facilities can utilize the same by installing it locally at
> their office and users access it from hotels, Hotspots etc..
> >> >>
> >> >> Screenshots is a great idea, lets see who could give a hand and
> build it out :-)
> >> >>
> >> >> Best Regards,
> >> >> --
> >> >> Bashar
> >> >>
> >> >> Huda Alnasser wrote, On 02/25/2012 03:01 PM:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >> Can you tell me more about it like who can benefit from it and is
> there any screen shots for how does it look like for people like me who
> can't install it?
> >> >> thank you
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <
> bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Salaam Alaikom all,
> >> >>> I'm happy to announce the release of VPN Platform to the opensource
> arena an easy way of setting up VPN on Linux with simple webbased
> management tool for managing users.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Utilizing many opensource based tools such as webmin/usermin just
> to name few the web interface was built and currently it supports both PPTP
> and OpenVPN and was tested successfully on RHEL and CentOS
> >> >>>
> >> >>> the lead developer (Ahmad Hamad) is currently adding debian/ubuntu
> compatibility and the list carry on.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I hereby invite you all to join Github and start collaborating,
> submitting issues/bugs, fixing, adding more features.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> there is a specific mailing list there too and you're more than
> welcome to join http://vpnplatform.org/mailing-list
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Please visit http://vpnplatform.org for more information :-)
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Play with it and share your questions or ideas.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Best Regards,
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
> >> >>>
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