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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

Overview of this book

OpenVPN is a powerful, open source SSL VPN application. It can secure site-to-site connections, WiFi and enterprise-scale remote connections. While being a full-featured VPN solution, OpenVPN is easy to use and does not suffer from the complexity that characterizes other IPSec VPN implementations. It uses the secure and stable TLS/SSL mechanisms for authentication and encryption. This book is an easy introduction to this popular VPN application. After introducing the basics of security and VPN, the book moves on to cover using OpenVPN, from installing it on various platforms, through configuring basic tunnels, to more advanced features, such as using the application with firewalls, routers, proxy servers, and OpenVPN scripting. While providing only necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting plenty of examples.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
OpenVPN
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Installing OpenVPN on SuSE Linux


Installing OpenVPN on SuSE Linux is almost as easy as under Windows or on the Mac. Linux users may say that it is even easier. On SuSE Linux almost all administrative tasks can be done using the administration interface YaST. OpenVPN Software can be installed completely with YaST. The people distributing SuSE have always tried to include up-to-date software in their distribution and thus the installation media of SuSE 9.3 already contains version 2.0 of OpenVPN.

Using YaST to Install Software

Start YaST. Under K Desktop Environment (KDE—the standard desktop under SuSE Linux), you will find YaST in the main menu under System | YaST. If you are logged in as a normal user, you will be prompted to enter your root password and confirm the same. The YaST control center is started.

This administration interface consists of many different modules, which are represented by symbols in the right half of the window and grouped by the labels on the left. After starting...