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OpenVPN Cookbook

OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jan Just Keijser
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OpenVPN Cookbook

OpenVPN Cookbook

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By: Jan Just Keijser

Overview of this book

OpenVPN provides an extensible VPN framework that has been designed to ease site-specific customization, such as providing the capability to distribute a customized installation package to clients, and supporting alternative authentication methods via OpenVPN’s plugin module interface. This book provides you with many different recipes to help you set up, monitor, and troubleshoot an OpenVPN network. You will learn to configure a scalable, load-balanced VPN server farm that can handle thousands of dynamic connections from incoming VPN clients. You will also get to grips with the encryption, authentication, security, extensibility, and certifications features of OpenSSL. You will also get an understanding of IPv6 support and will get a demonstration of how to establish a connection via IPv64. This book will explore all the advanced features of OpenVPN and even some undocumented options, covering all the common network setups such as point-to-point networks and multi-client TUN-style and TAP-style networks. Finally, you will learn to manage, secure, and troubleshoot your virtual private networks using OpenVPN 2.4.
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Scripting and IPv6


Now that IPv6 addresses are more common, it is instructive to show how IPv6 addresses are passed from the server to client-side scripts. Basically, all environment variables that existed for IPv4 addresses also exist for IPv6, simply by appending or inserting _ipv6 to the environment variable. In this recipe, we will show you how to process these environment variables.

Getting ready

Install OpenVPN 2.3 or higher on two computers. Make sure that the computers are connected over a network. Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2Client-server IP-only Networks. For this recipe, the server computer was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.10., and the client was running Fedora 22 and OpenVPN 2.3.10. For the server, keep the server configuration file, basic-udp-server.conf, from the Server-side routing recipe, from Chapter 2Client-server IP-only Networks.

How to do it...

  1. Append two lines to the server configuration file, basic-udp-server...

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