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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

Unable to change Windows network location


The title of this recipe may not seem related to routing issues, but the Windows network location depends on routing to work. Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced the concept of network locations. By default, there are multiple network locations: HomeWork and Public for Windows 7 and Private and Public for Windows 8 and above. These network locations apply to all network adapters, including OpenVPN's virtual TAP-Win network adapter.

The Home network location is intended for a home network. Similarly, the Work network location also provides a high level of trust at work, allowing the computer to share files, connect to printers and so on. In Windows 8 and above, the Home and Work network locations are merged together to become the trusted Private network location. The Public network location is not trusted and access to network resources is restricted by Windows, even when the Windows firewall is disabled.

The routing properties of an...