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Troubleshooting OpenVPN

By : Eric F Crist
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Troubleshooting OpenVPN

By: Eric F Crist

Overview of this book

OpenVPN, the most widely used open source VPN package, allows you to create a secure network across systems, keeping your private data secure. Connectivity and other issues are a pain to deal with, especially if they are impacting your business. This book will help you resolve the issues faced by OpenVPN users and teach the techniques on how to troubleshoot it like a true expert. This book is a one stop solution for troubleshooting any issue related to OpenVPN. We will start by introducing you to troubleshooting techniques such as Packet Sniffing, Log Parsing, and OpenSSL. You will see how to overcome operating system specific errors. Later on, you will get to know about network and routing errors by exploring the concepts of IPv4 and IPv6 networking issues. You will discover how to overcome these issues to improve the performance of your OpenVPN deployment. By the end of the book, you will know the best practices, tips, and tricks to ensure the smooth running of your OpenVPN.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Common installation problems


OpenVPN installation problems can be classified into a few major categories: adapter or driver problems, lack of necessary permissions, and broken installers. It is also possible that the existing packages for your chosen operating system either do not exist or are greatly out of date.

Compiling OpenVPN

On Linux and Unix systems, compiling from source can sometimes be the only way to get OpenVPN installed. There are packages available for the majority of operating system releases, but there are custom systems (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OpenWrt, and so on) that may not have the latest version of OpenVPN available. Given a proper development environment, the OpenVPN installation should be pretty straightforward.

The required development environment basically consists of the following software components: