Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:55:42 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> Cc: Dave B <g8kbvdave@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help/advice request please. Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1511161940080.23985@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <564A521A.90406@radel.com> References: <564A4CE3.9663.851BBC@g8kbvdave.googlemail.com> <EB867E94-B658-4E58-91D2-6093888F4EB8@gmail.com> <564A521A.90406@radel.com>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Jon Radel wrote: > On 11/16/15 4:45 PM, Manas wrote: >> Hello Dave, >> >> I run a few openvpn servers on FreeBSD. I use >> https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html as my >> guide. Feel free to email me directly with any questions. >> > > I was just looking at that one, not having setup OpenVPN from scratch in a > while now. Looks perfectly reasonable. Just yesterday I was thinking we really need an OpenVPN section for the Handbook. Something that shows best practices, not the typical "for simplicity, this example does not use passwords, but you should always use passwords in exactly the way we did not demonstrate at all here." I'm not the one to write it, having been frustrated by the lack of good examples the last time I looked. But I would be willing to help. >> But there is no guidance as to what the other field values should (or >> should not) be. That is really annoying. The equally annoying opposite number is magic values with no explanation. Using callouts really helps fill in the detail without distracting from the example, as seen in https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html#network-wireless-ap-wpa
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