wanderer03
Well-Known Member
Now that I no longer have to do IT for a living, the dormant geek in me is erupting. I've rediscovered OpenBSD and I've always been fascinated with networks and UNIX Operating Systems. I haven't touched OpenBSD since its 2.0 days and now it's at 5.8. Well, the uber geek in me just rolled my own VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service) using OpenBSD so I can provide tech support to my mom, dad, and brother. Yes, it's sending a cannon to kill a mosquito, i.e. an overkill, but I'm having lots of fun with it.
It's lots of fun to do things like this, especially when if you purchased VPLS service from a provider it would be way out of the common person's price range. I like to be able to easily and securely fire up a remote assistance session over my VPLS (Layer 2 VPN.) No more mucking with firewall settings and getting people to find IP addresses.
Plus I can backup my family's critical data.
Anyone else out there like to do fun things with BSD or Linux?
It's lots of fun to do things like this, especially when if you purchased VPLS service from a provider it would be way out of the common person's price range. I like to be able to easily and securely fire up a remote assistance session over my VPLS (Layer 2 VPN.) No more mucking with firewall settings and getting people to find IP addresses.
![Smile :-) :-)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
Anyone else out there like to do fun things with BSD or Linux?