I Offically Love Twofo- Twofo at Loughborough University
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:59 pm
Hi guys,
Been using twofo for a while now (off campus, using port 4144), and I have to say it is an excellent idea for university.
Infact it is such a good idea I wanted to replicate it for loughborough university, if you guys don't mind me stealing afew of your ideas (and help!)
I really just wanted to gain an appreciation of how twofo really works, so far to my understanding the twofo server is located off campus and people on campus connects to their local machine (127.0.0.1), then stunnel encypts the connection using SSL and connects to an SSL server off campus, then the SSL server connects to the DC hub. Is this correct?
I have several Athlon x2 box's lying about at home, I'm going home for christmas tommorow so i thought i would take this oppotunity to setup the server at home to connect to when I get back to university.
How would I go about creating the server? Obviously I would need a public DC hub and a dynamic DNS name, but in terms of secruity and stunnel, what would you guys and girls suggest? (considering ITS here seems to be as strict as yours- although no one here has ever been disconnected, I would still like to host the hub off campus and get users to stunnel in)
In terms of the SSL server as well, is that located on the same box as the hub, or would I need a seperate box to run the SSL server?
I did have a brief convosation with Astropoint on the DC hub the other day and he was exceedingly helpful so did just want to say thanks to him as well!
Thanks guys/girls and congrats on a great Hub!
Tom
Been using twofo for a while now (off campus, using port 4144), and I have to say it is an excellent idea for university.
Infact it is such a good idea I wanted to replicate it for loughborough university, if you guys don't mind me stealing afew of your ideas (and help!)
I really just wanted to gain an appreciation of how twofo really works, so far to my understanding the twofo server is located off campus and people on campus connects to their local machine (127.0.0.1), then stunnel encypts the connection using SSL and connects to an SSL server off campus, then the SSL server connects to the DC hub. Is this correct?
I have several Athlon x2 box's lying about at home, I'm going home for christmas tommorow so i thought i would take this oppotunity to setup the server at home to connect to when I get back to university.
How would I go about creating the server? Obviously I would need a public DC hub and a dynamic DNS name, but in terms of secruity and stunnel, what would you guys and girls suggest? (considering ITS here seems to be as strict as yours- although no one here has ever been disconnected, I would still like to host the hub off campus and get users to stunnel in)
In terms of the SSL server as well, is that located on the same box as the hub, or would I need a seperate box to run the SSL server?
I did have a brief convosation with Astropoint on the DC hub the other day and he was exceedingly helpful so did just want to say thanks to him as well!
Thanks guys/girls and congrats on a great Hub!
Tom