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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

Overview of this book

OpenVPN is a powerful, open source SSL VPN application. It can secure site-to-site connections, WiFi and enterprise-scale remote connections. While being a full-featured VPN solution, OpenVPN is easy to use and does not suffer from the complexity that characterizes other IPSec VPN implementations. It uses the secure and stable TLS/SSL mechanisms for authentication and encryption. This book is an easy introduction to this popular VPN application. After introducing the basics of security and VPN, the book moves on to cover using OpenVPN, from installing it on various platforms, through configuring basic tunnels, to more advanced features, such as using the application with firewalls, routers, proxy servers, and OpenVPN scripting. While providing only necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting plenty of examples.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
OpenVPN
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Installing OpenVPN on RPM-Based Systems


On both SuSE and Fedora, there is another possible way to install OpenVPN. The command-line interface rpm is available on all systems using the Redhat package management system. rpm is a very powerful command that can install, remove, update, test, and query software packages. Installing software with rpm is done in three steps:

  1. 1. Downloading the software

  2. 2. Testing installation and resolving dependencies

  3. 3. Installing the RPM files with the appropriate rpm command

Whenever you run into problems with RPM, its manpage is the best reference for all of its abundant options.

The best place to look for the right version of OpenVPN under SuSE will be ftp://ftp.suse.com/. Fedora RPMs can be obtained from Dag Wieers' site http://dag.wieers.com/packages/openvpn/. The command-line extract in the following section shows the typical process of obtaining and installing OpenVPN on SuSE 9.3, but this procedure will work in exactly the same way on Fedora or any other...