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ipsec VPN tunnel between local private network (pfSense) to AWS private network (Openswan)

Fazal Yehiya Communication, ipsec, Linux, vpn , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Scenario: A local private network and a private network in Amazon Web Service (AWS) needs to be connected securely over the internet through an ipsec VPN. In order to cover an expanded scope, VPN tunnel will be established between Openswan ipsec VPN from AWS to pfSense ipsec VPN in local network.

Main AWS VPC in this scenario “172.31.0.0/16” has 2 subnets, Backend (172.31.1.0/24) and Frontend (172.31.2.0/24) respectively. Application servers are hosted in Backend subnet while Openswan VPN server is hosted in Frontend. All traffic between these 2 subnets are allowed.
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Installing softwares to RHEL5 without RHN subscription

Fazal Yehiya Linux, Red Hat , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

To Install software to Red Hat 5 Enterprise Linux when your installation is not registered with Red Hat Network, simple solution is to install the software from the installation DVD.

If you have an ISO file of the installed OS version, mount it to /mnt/cd

Then create a file “iso.repo” in /etc/yum.repos.d

[base]
name=DVDROM
baseurl=file:///mnt/cd/Server
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release