From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Nov 17 02:55:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F656A31775 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3F23198C for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:55:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id tAH2tgRK031787 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:55:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id tAH2tgf2031784; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:55:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:55:42 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Jon Radel cc: Dave B , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help/advice request please. In-Reply-To: <564A521A.90406@radel.com> Message-ID: References: <564A4CE3.9663.851BBC@g8kbvdave.googlemail.com> <564A521A.90406@radel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:55:42 -0700 (MST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:55:45 -0000 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