I’ve recently been tasked on implementing a linux vpn client for our IPSEC/L2TP based vpn. This task would have been extremely difficult if not for the efforts of Jacco de Leeuw (for his “Using Linux as an L2TP/IPsec VPN client” documentation) and Scott Myron et al. from Indiana University (“Linux L2TP over IPsec VPN Script for IU”).

Over the past year and a half I’ve had to relocate my office more times than Milton Waddams, so I’ve become accustomed to traveling light. Each move, however, has required me to adapt to a new desktop arrangement since the office furniture isn’t standard between buildings (or certain locations within them). In the most recent move this past week, I lost about a third of my desktop space and quickly realized I had to modify my cramped arrangement somehow.