We’ll try to have recent versions of as many Linux distributions as possible, certainly including Debian.
There will be some Ubuntu Linux, (We will have at least one CD for ‘Hardy Heron’ for i386)
Please come and help, or bring your machine along. Note: Please, please back up your machine before you bring it, unless you are absolutely willing to risk losing everything on it!
When you arrive at the porters lodge, you will be required to sign-in and list all pieces of equipment that you are bringing in to the InstallFest, otherwise you will not be allowed to take it out of the building at the end
Adventures with OpenVPN
Paul Waring will be talking to us about his experiences with setting up virtual private networks, in particular using the OpenVPN software. As well as discussing the benefits of OpenVPN and its various modes of operation, Paul will also draw attention to some common problems to watch out for when running a VPN server.
No one has volunteered to give a talk ( as yet…) so there will be an opportunity for general discussion and troubleshooting, etc.
With the release cycle of Ubuntu being every 6 months with one being in April and the other being in October, we’ve normally had our InstallFests around the same time.
There have been many (well one or two) requests to put the April InstalFest back a month to May, so that is what we are going to do this time.
Another resaon for the date change is that the next release 8.04 is a bit special as its the new LTS (long term support) which will eventually replace 6.06 LTS.
We used to ask for CD packs in bulk, and these can still be ordered – the odds are that bulk orders would take a bit more than a month to arrive.
Lee Ball has volunteered to do a presentation about the Asus EeePC, and will be doing it using the EeePC.
There may be other people with Eeepc boxes as well
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We didn’t get anything definite this meeting, but a few installs were going on and a few people brought along their eeepc to show us what it could do. For future meetings it has been suggested that we have an XO related meeting as there is at least one person with one of these little beasties. For those of you that don’t know, the XO is the OLPC system that was developed to spread IT skills to children in third world countries.
IPv6
Jim Jackson
This talk is an introduction to basic IPv6 technology and some of the transision technologies. It doesn’t cover topics such as IPv6 multicast or mobility. It draws on experience gained from running an IPv6 test-bed and on the work in hand to deploy IPv6 at the University of Leeds. The talk assumes a basic understanding of current IPv4.
InstallFest
We’ll try to have recent versions of as many Linux distributions as possible, certainly including Debian.
There will be some Ubuntu Linux, (We will have at least one CD for ‘Feisty Fawn’ for i386, and for the adventurous a copy of the latest ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ for i386)
Please come and help, or bring your machine along. Note: Please, please back up your machine before you bring it, unless you are absolutely willing to risk losing everything on it!
When you arrive at the porters lodge, you will be required to sign-in and list all pieces of equipment that you are bringing in to the InstallFest, otherwise you will not be allowed to take it out of the building at the end
Our speaker is Simon Hobson, who will be talking about Shorewall. Here is the outline from Simon:
Shorewall http://www.shorewall.net/
From the FAQ:
- What is Shorewall?
- The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your requirements. Shorewall can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux system. Shorewall does not use Netfilter’s ipchains compatibility mode; as a consequence, Shorewall can take advantage of Netfilter’s connection state tracking capabilities to create a stateful firewall.
I use Shorewall on every new Linux box I set up – it’s on my home gateway/server, gateways for customers, and on several servers at work. I find it sits nicely in between “easy to use but ultimately limited” GUI based firewalls like Smoothwall, and the out and out hardcore geek approach of directly driving iptables.
I’m sure that something was done, but I wasn’t there..
I was stuck in a traffic jam somewhere around Bristol on the M5…. 
