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OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jan Just Keijser
Book Image

OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Integrating IPv6 into TAP-style networks


For the final recipe of this chapter, we will show how to integrate IPv6 settings into TAP-style networks. TAP-style networks have had support for IPv6 traffic longer than TUN-style networks, as a TAP-style network provides an Ethernet-like layer. This layer is capable of transporting almost any kind of network protocol, including IPv6. In OpenVPN 2.3, better IPv6 support was added so that an OpenVPN server could provide a DHCP pool with IPv6 addresses. In this recipe, we will show just how to do that.

Getting ready

Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2Client-server IP-only Networks. For this recipe, both the server computer and the client computer were running CentOS 6 Linux 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 client, keep the client configuration file example3-1-client.conf from the first recipe of this...