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OpenVPN Cookbook

You're reading from OpenVPN Cookbook Get the most out of OpenVPN by exploring it's advanced features.

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786463128

Length 400 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C

Tools

OpenVPN

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Jan Just Keijser

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition

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Preface

1. Point-to-Point Networks FREE CHAPTER

2. Client-server IP-only Networks

3. Client-server Ethernet-style Networks

4. PKI, Certificates, and OpenSSL

5. Scripting and Plugins

6. Troubleshooting OpenVPN - Configurations

7. Troubleshooting OpenVPN - Routing

8. Performance Tuning

9. OS Integration

10. Advanced Configuration

Linux - using NetworkManager

When Linux is used as a desktop operating system, the network configuration is configured using the Linux NetworkManager in most of the cases. This package allows a non-root user to start and stop the network connections, connect and disconnect from wireless networks, and also to set up several types of VPN connections, including OpenVPN. In this recipe, we will show how to configure an OpenVPN connection using the GNOME variant of the NetworkManager.

Getting ready

Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks. For this recipe, the server computer was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.11. The client was running Fedora 22 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.11. This version of Linux comes with NetworkManager 1.0.8, including the NetworkManager-openvpn plugin. The NetworkManager-openvpn plugin is not installed by default and needs to be explicitly added to the system. Keep the configuration file, basic-udp...

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Authors (1)

Jan Just Keijser

Jan Just Keijser

Jan Just Keijser is an open source professional from Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has a wide range of experience in IT, ranging from providing user support, system administration, and systems programming to network programming. He has worked for various IT companies since 1989. He was an active USENET contributor in the early 1990s and has been working mainly on Unix/Linux platforms since 1995. Currently, he is employed as a senior scientific programmer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at Nikhef, the institute for subatomic physics from the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). He works on multi-core and many-core computing systems and grid computing as well as smartcard applications. His open source interests include all types of virtual private networking, including IPSec, PPTP, and, of course, OpenVPN. In 2004, he discovered OpenVPN and has been using it ever since. His first book was OpenVPN 2 Cookbook by Packt Publishing in 2011, followed by Mastering OpenVPN, also by Packt Publishing, in 2015.

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