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Written by Brian Crumrine
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Saturday, 19 September 2009 |
OpenVPN is a great VPN solution. It uses SSL for encryption, which is a standard used for many things, including web browsers.
The OpenVPN GUI makes it even easier to use on the desktop. In my experience, it's not as difficult to configure as IPSec and more reliable.
I run OpenVPN between servers, firewalls and use my desktops as VPN clients to connect to servers and firewalls.
Had a recent challenge with my upgrade to Vista and Windows 7 and running the OpenVPN GUI. It didn't work at first, it would just hang setting up the adapters. It does work, just needs to be configured to run in Vista compatibility mode and run as administrator privileges. It needs administrator privileges because it is working with the network adapters and routing tables.
Setting up a server - this example is in Linux, but you can use Windows 2000/2003 servers etc. There are many tutorials to do this, the one I have used is on the OpenVPN site http://www.openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#examples
A very basic server config is something like this:
dev tun
ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2
secret static.key
keepalive 10 60
ping-timer-rem
persist-tun
persist-key
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nobody
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 September 2009 )
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