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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

Push-peer-info - pushing options to Android clients


This recipe is a continuation of the previous recipe. When integrating mobile clients into an existing OpenVPN setup, it is often necessary to treat these mobile clients differently from the regular OpenVPN clients. In some cases, it will be necessary to redirect all traffic for mobile clients over the VPN tunnel or a different encryption scheme needs to be used to optimize the OpenVPN app on the Android device. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to push an option to an Android client, while leaving the options for all other clients unchanged.

Getting ready

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 2.4. The client device was running Android 4.2 and OpenVPN for Android version 0.6.57. Keep the configuration file, basic-udp-server.conf, from the Server-side routing recipe in Chapter 2Client...