VPN | Danny Tsang

Jul/24

Home Assistant Continuous Integration Workflow 2024

Filed Under Home Automation, Infrastructure, Workflow at 1st July 2024 0:01 by Danny

Tags: continuous deployment, continuous integration, GitHub, information security, infosec, tailscale, VPN

Overview A minor tweak to the Home Assistant CI/CD pipeline worth mentioning. The deployment process now replaces public call to a webhook to a VPN based solution. This comes in the form of Tailscale who also provide an example github … Continue reading →

Nov/22

ZeroTier

Filed Under Infrastructure at 7th November 2022 0:01 by Danny

Tags: home assistant, iot, tailscale, VPN, zerotier

Overview I have been looking at moving towards a zero trust network but I have never been able to get other how home devices especially Internet of Things (IOT) generally use discovery protocols to ease setup which is contradictory to … Continue reading →

Apr/15

OpenVPN Server On Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Linux at 27th April 2015 0:01 by Danny

Tags: certificate, Debian, Domain Name System, ip address, key, OpenVPN, Rasbian, raspberry pi, Tunneling protocols, Virtual private networks, VPN

Overview Having a great geek out chat with Andrew Gorton and he gave me the idea of setting up an OpenVPN server using a Raspberry Pi. A simple, relatively cheap solution to get access to resources at home. Pre-Requisites I … Continue reading →

Feb/14

Keep VPN Alive On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Networking at 24th February 2014 0:01 by Danny

Tags: cron, crontab, Network, Network Manager, nmcli, Ubuntu, VPN

Overview I have tried VPNs in the past but for whatever reason they always disconnect after a certain amount of time despite selecting automatically connect. I found a post on how to keep a VPN alive by using network manger … Continue reading →

Aug/11

WiTopia VPN Abroad

Filed Under Mobile Phone, Networking at 28th August 2011 19:01 by Danny

Tags: Acer, Android, Cyanogenmod, HTC, netbook, PPTP, ROM, Ubuntu, VPN, vpn service, Wi-fi, WiTopia

Overview I recently went abroad to Cyprus and got a chance to try using a VPN service “on the road”. I had my Android and Linux devices with mixed results. Please continue reading to find out more. Ubuntu 11.04 I … Continue reading →

May/11

WiTopia VPN Service Review

Filed Under Networking, Security at 25th May 2011 0:01 by Danny

Tags: Android, gateways, IPSec, MacBook, OpenVPN, PPTP, VPN, WiTopia

I have always wanted to get a VPN server running at home so that I can tunnel back into the network remotely and also to protect myself on public hot spots. The former was more complicated than I thought and … Continue reading →