This recipe shows how OpenVPN can be managed using the management interface on the server.
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 2.3.10. The first client was running Fedora 20 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.10. The second client was running Windows 7 64 bit and OpenVPN 2.3.10.
For the server, keep the configuration file example3-1-server.conf
from the first recipe of this chapter at hand. For the Linux client, keep the client configuration file example3-1-client.conf
from the first recipe of this chapter at hand. For the Windows client, keep the client configuration file example3-2-client2.ovpn
from the Enabling client-to-client traffic recipe at hand.
We use the following network layout: