<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 5, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Ray Cote <<a href="mailto:rgacote@appropriatesolutions.com" class="">rgacote@appropriatesolutions.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Linowes <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jonathan@linowes.com" target="_blank" class="">jonathan@linowes.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">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" class="">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'" class="">Or maybe there’s a better, longer term solution.</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'" class=""> </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'" class="">Is this something you can help? </span></div><div class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class="">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/" class="">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 class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class="">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 class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Ray</div><div class="">-- <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Raymond Cote, President</div><div class="">Tokenize What Matters®</div><div class="">voice: +1.603.924.6079 email: <a href="mailto:rgacote@appropriatesolutions.com" class="">rgacote@AppropriateSolutions.com</a> skype: ray.cote</div><div class="">Schedule a meeting: <a href="https://calendly.com/ray_cote/60min/" target="_blank" class="">https://calendly.com/ray_cote/60min/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div>
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