<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Linowes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@linowes.com" target="_blank">jonathan@linowes.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Specifically right now, I need a static IP to log in to a secure website. I have a legacy VPS running <font face="Helvetica Neue">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. </font><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Or maybe there’s a better, longer term solution.</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"> </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Is this something you can help? </span></div><div></div></blockquote></div><br>Hi Jon:</div><div class="gmail_extra">A few initial thoughts:</div><div class="gmail_extra">1) RHEL4 is extremely old (RHEL5 is about to reach end of life soon). </div><div class="gmail_extra">If you’re familiar with RHEL, then you should consider upgrading to RHEL 6 (or consider CentOS6 from <a href="http://centos.org">centos.org</a> — the same system without commercial support).</div><div class="gmail_extra">Otherwise, it may be difficult to match any advice you receive to the old RHEL4 environment.<br><br clear="all"><div>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. </div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>—Ray</div><div>-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Raymond Cote, President</div><div>Tokenize What Matters®</div><div>voice: +1.603.924.6079 email: rgacote@AppropriateSolutions.com skype: ray.cote</div><div>Schedule a meeting: <a href="https://calendly.com/ray_cote/60min/" target="_blank">https://calendly.com/ray_cote/60min/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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