i need linux help

Jonathan Linowes jonathan at linowes.com
Wed Dec 7 10:33:05 EST 2016


Hi Ray, yeah the server is being migrated to a newer system, and that’s part of where i also could use someone to talk to. But my immediate need to get something going with what I have. Can you help or know someone? Thanks


> On Dec 5, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Ray Cote <rgacote at appropriatesolutions.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Linowes <jonathan at linowes.com <mailto:jonathan at linowes.com>> wrote:
> Specifically right now, I need a static IP to log in to a secure website. I have a legacy VPS running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 so I thought I could use that as a VPN or even just SSL tunneling. I tried to set it up but didn’t get too far. My linux skills are quite rusty. Or maybe there’s a better, longer term solution. Is this something you can help? 
> 
> Hi Jon:
> A few initial thoughts:
> 1) RHEL4 is extremely old (RHEL5 is about to reach end of life soon). 
> If you’re familiar with RHEL, then you should consider upgrading to  RHEL 6 (or consider CentOS6 from centos.org <http://centos.org/> — the same system without commercial support).
> Otherwise, it may be difficult to match any advice you receive to the old RHEL4 environment.
> 
> 2) Without further details it is difficult to get into specifics, but it looks like you are using the legacy VPS for the static IP. 
> If a VPS is secure enough for you, then my recommendation would be to upgrade to a VPS with a more modern OS and then confirm you can connect directly from it to the target server. Once that’s confirmed operational, then you can look at setting up something like stunnel to forward from your machine to the remote. 
> 
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