Category: RackSpace

Windows L2TP/IPSec Client Config

Here’s the procedure to configure a Windows client to connect to a L2TP/IPsec VPN server. You’ll need to know: VPN Server Address IPSec Pre-shared Secret Username Password To get started: 1. Open the “Start” menu, enter “setup a vpn” in the search box and hit Enter. The “Create a VPN connection” dialog will open. You can also get to this dialog by going to: Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> “Setup a new connection or network” -> “Connect to a workplace” -> Next -> “Use my Internet connection (VPN)” 2. Enter the VPN Server Address in the “Internet Address” field. Enter a name for the VPN connection like “My VPN” in the “Destination Name” field. Click the “Don’t connect now…” checkbox. Click the Next button. 3. Enter the username and password. Click the Create button. Click the Close button. 4. Open the network connections dialog by

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Brocade Vyatta vRouter on RackSpace Cloud

RackSpace has recently released the Brocade Vyatta vRouter image to general availability on Cloud Servers. In combination with Cloud Networks the Brocade image can be used to build complex firewalled environments including VPNs. Reliable Penguin participated in the Early Access beta test for this new product. Here are a few links to useful information about the vRouter. RackSpace Vyatta Quick Start Firewall Remote Access VPN Masquerade Private Cloud Server (SNAT) Quick Start (Brocade) Firewall (Brocade) Not all control panel actions work with the vRouter. For example you have to reboot from the CLI. See this article for details: Vyatta Network Appliance: Supported Actions Through Control Panel      

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Upload to RS Cloud Files From Command Line

Great article here: http://thejaswi.info/tech/blog/2013/01/02/upload-a-directory-to-rackspace-cloud-files-from-command-line/ First step is to get the X-Auth-Token:

Then send the upload request:

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RackSpace DNSaaS

Looks like RackSpace is doing DNS as a service with an API. Here are the links: Retail Site http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/dns/ API Developers Guide http://docs.rackspace.com/api/ Tutorial http://www.collazo.ws/2011/07/08/using-rackspace-dnsaas-with-curl-part-1 This should make it much easier to do bulk DNS operations in the cloud.

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