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Month: February 2013

Set MTU for VPN connection managed by NetworkManager daemon

2013-02-25 by Ade Jones 1 Comment

Every time I connected to a Microsoft PPTP VPN server from Debian/Ubuntu desktop, I experienced slow network and dropped connections. Here’s how I fixed it.

Posted in: Debian Tagged: Debian, Kubuntu, MTU, NetworkManager, PPTP, RRAS, Ubuntu, VPN, Windows Server

SSH cheatsheet

2013-02-22 by Ade Jones Leave a Comment

Secure Shell (SSH) provides a secure channel to a remote server for command execution, file copy, tunnelling, etc., and is essential for administering those remote servers. SSH uses public key cryptography to encrypt communication via a public and private key. The private key must be kept secret by the sender and is used to encrypt data. The public key … [Read more…]

Posted in: Debian, OS X Tagged: SSH

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I program computers to do the bidding of humans; been doing this since the eighties. That makes me pretty old.

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