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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

Comparing IPv4 and IPv6 speed


This recipe is a continuation of the previous recipe, but here we will focus on the performance difference between tunneling Pv4 traffic and IPv6 traffic. In this recipe, we will run iperf over the VPN tunnel using IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses inside the tunnel, after which the differences in performance will be explained.

Getting ready

We use the following network layout:

Set up the client and server certificates using the Setting up the public and private keys recipe from Chapter 2Client-server IP-only Networks. For this recipe, the server computer was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.11. The client was running Fedora 22 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.11. Keep the configuration file example-2-4-server.conf from the Adding IPv6 support recipe from Chapter 2Client-server IP-only Networks, as well as the client configuration file basic-udp-client.conf.

How to do it...

  1. Start the server:

            [root@server]# openvpn --config example-2-4-server.conf
    
  2. Next, start...