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Serial Console Guide
by Michael Tremer 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Hi, Thanks Jon for updating the guide for Mac OS :) Although I am running that myself, I have never used it for connecting serially. However, the linked app costs around US$40 in the App Store which I think is extortionate. Clearly there must be an alternative that is free for such a simple task. Could we potentially recommend something that is free? -Michael

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New Wiki Software - Please help testing :)
by Michael Tremer 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Hello people, I am busy with migrating the wiki to the new webapp. For those who are not aware of this happening: We are going to move away from Dokuwiki. The story is quite a long one, but in short it is that I am unhappy with it. It has been a solid piece of software for us, but the user registration process is broken. People cannot sign up to it. Spam bots can. It does not look very nice and all in all it is written in PHP. The original plan was to port our design to it, but actually it is easier just to write some wiki stuff into the web app where other parts already exist. So I decided to use our web app and add two things: An editor for the pages, a place to upload files and a big function that renders the pages. That is about it. This wiki uses markdown. The syntax is very similar to the Dokuwiki syntax with exception of images, tables and some other smaller things. But markdown is widely used. Loads of people have probably used it somewhere else before. Also this is handy because I did not have to implement something that renders my own syntax. I have been working on a unified account system which is coming along nicely. I have also been working on a converter that is porting all content from Dokuwiki to the new wiki. Unfortunately this is not the easiest thing. The “new” wiki is currently available at https://wiki.dev.ipfire.org/. Please feel free to browse around and have a look what works well and what doesn’t. All in all the converter converts a lot itself and I think the pages look nice and clean. But some things cannot be converted so there might be some stuff that we have to do manually. The biggest of those are tables that do not follow the normal standard. The one on the index page for example is such a table. The second thing that does not work very well is paths. Loads of links are broken and point at arbitrary stuff. The wiki now follows the usual filesystem approach with its URLs (: are / now) and you can go back with “..” and remain in the same directory with “.” or by using no prefix. I also decided not to import the whole history of the wiki. I am not sure if there is any value in it. The data is old and there are tons of images that we no longer need. Also Dokuwiki has a nice API to go through all existing pages and going back into the archive is a bit more difficult. So, please have a look around. Log in. Edit things. I will probably run the import again. Please help me find bugs and send me an email. I would like to switch over as soon as possible. Best, -Michael

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Re: New Wiki Software - Please help testing :)
by Michael Tremer 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

Hi, It looks like this was only broken for the index page. I pushed out some changes. Please try again. -Michael > On 30 May 2019, at 18:04, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Michael - The preview does not work for me. I see the word "Preview" and then to the far right I see a spinning circle. Below that I see "Loading...". > > Jon > > <Screen Shot 2019-05-30 at 11.45.40 AM.png> > > >> From: Michael Tremer >> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 9:50 AM >> To: Matthias Fischer >> Cc: Jon Murphy; documentation(a)lists.ipfire.org >> Subject: Re: New Wiki Software - Please help testing :) >> >> >> >> Okay, I just pushed some changes. >> >> There is now a preview function which automatically updates. I quite like it. Tell me what you think. >> >

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Browser based editor for markdown
by Jon Murphy 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

Maybe this will help. It is updated! Jon https://stackedit.io/app# https://stackedit.io https://github.com/benweet/stackedit

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Re: New Wiki Software - Please help testing :)
by Michael Tremer 30 May '19

30 May '19

Hi, Do you have javascript enabled? Can you open the error console of your browser and let me know what it says? I tested with Safari and Firefox. What browser are you using? -Michael > On 30 May 2019, at 18:04, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Michael - The preview does not work for me. I see the word "Preview" and then to the far right I see a spinning circle. Below that I see "Loading...". > > Jon > > <Screen Shot 2019-05-30 at 11.45.40 AM.png> > > >> From: Michael Tremer >> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 9:50 AM >> To: Matthias Fischer >> Cc: Jon Murphy; documentation(a)lists.ipfire.org >> Subject: Re: New Wiki Software - Please help testing :) >> >> >> >> Okay, I just pushed some changes. >> >> There is now a preview function which automatically updates. I quite like it. Tell me what you think. >> >

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Re: New Wiki Software - Please help testing :)
by Jon Murphy 30 May '19

30 May '19

Michael - It seems like there are some differences between Markdown and the new wiki app. One is the double brackets, e.g., [[relativeLink]] With the old wiki I could search thru the Dokuwiki website for hints. What is the name of the new app? That will give us a better idea of how to use it. Jon

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Re: New Wiki Software - Please help testing :)
by Jon Murphy 24 May '19

24 May '19

Michael - I’d be happy to help also! I tried to EDIT but I only get: Error 401 - oops, something went wrong And I tried to login (bottom right corner of web page) but the web page just sits and waits. Eventually I get: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /login. Reason: Error reading from remote server Jon

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Fwd: Change in IPSec roadwarrior configuration for MacOSX 10.12
by Carlo Fusco 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

My apologues, I forgot to cc the mailing list, here is my reply to Tom: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Carlo Fusco <fusco.carlo(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 2:37 PM Subject: Re: Change in IPSec roadwarrior configuration for MacOSX 10.12 To: Tom Rymes <trymes(a)rymes.com> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 8:09 PM Tom Rymes <trymes(a)rymes.com> wrote: > > Carlo, > > Just to confirm, have you put this text into the ipsec.user.conf file > and restarted IPSec? Yes, I followed your tutorial to the letter. By the way, thank you so much for writing it. It has been extremely useful for me > conn CONNECTION_NAME > leftsendcert=always > leftallowany=yes > rightdns=10.100.2.1 > rekey=no > reauth=no > > Specifically, the rekey and reauth portions. About that, I did not have the time to research the issue, so this is just an hypothesis. I assume that the rekey=no in that configuration file will prevent the server to initiate a rekey negotiation with the client, not the other way around. According to the apple developer response to the bug report I referenced in my previous message, the issue is that strongswan defaults to use perfect forward secrecy when the DH group is specified for ESP while the Mac OS implementation, if set in the GUI, defaults to no DH group. This leads the server to reject the rekey request and dropping the communication. This happens every 480 seconds, the time set by Apple to initiate a rekey. Therefore there are two solutions to the problem: 1) The first is what I tested and reported in the wiki is to not set the DH group for ESP. This works very well, but I guess is not the best option from a security point of view; 2) the second is to change the default setting of macos and enable PFS key, but this cannot be done from the gui and requires messing with the xml configuration profiles of MacOS. I do not know yet how to pursue the second strategy (yet), therefore I did not mention it in the wiki, but I left the reference to the original bug report that explains all this. What would be your suggestion? Should we leave the text I introduced in the wiki? Move it somewhere else? Send it only to the forum? Or any other solution? I welcome any guidance on this issue. Before I end the mail, I would like to thank you again Tom for your work in the wiki. As I said it was really helpful. The same goes for any other author of the text of the wiki, which for such a small project is really remarkable in terms of quality. Cheers, -- Carlo Fusco -- Carlo Fusco

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Change in IPSec roadwarrior configuration for MacOSX 10.12
by Carlo Fusco 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hello, I have MAC OS X Sierra as an IPSec client and when I configured IPSec server on IPFire I found that it was being disconnected every 480 sec due to a failed rekey attempt from Mac OS, which happened with the configuration proposed in the text of the wiki. According to the apple developers, a change in the ESP grouptype was required ( http://www.openradar.appspot.com/29821241 ). When I tested the IPSec suggested configuration everything worked well. Therefore I changed the text of the wiki to reflect the issue. I also fixed a non matching parenthesis. Here is the diff: https://wiki.ipfire.org/configuration/services/ipsec/example_configuration-… Feel free to revert the change if you believe it is necessary or to suggest a different wording/place. Thank you for your time -- Carlo Fusco

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Changes to The Web Interface wiki page
by Jon Murphy 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Good day! I made lots of changes to the Web Interface wiki page and it dawned on me I may have gone overboard (i.e., made too many changes). Please let me know if I should revert back to the old version. This is the current Web Interface page -> https://wiki.ipfire.org/configuration/start And this page before I started: -> https://wiki.ipfire.org/configuration/start?rev=1541699424 I was hoping to make it easier to understand for beginners (like me). Best regards, Jon

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