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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

Enabling client-to-client traffic


This recipe is a continuation of the previous recipe. It will demonstrate how to set up a TAP-based connection in client or server mode using certificates. Using the client-to-client directive, it will also enable different OpenVPN clients to contact each other. For TAP-based networks, this leads to some important side effects.

Getting ready

We use the following network layout:

Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2Client-server IP-only Networks.

For this recipe, the server was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.10; both clients were running Windows 7 64 bit and OpenVPN 2.3.10. For the server, keep the configuration file example3-1-server.conf from the previous recipe at hand.

How to do it...

  1. Create the server configuration file by adding a line to the example3-1-server.conf file:

        client-to-client
    

    Save it as example-3-2-server.conf.

  2. Start the server:

          [root@server]# openvpn --config example3-2-server.conf...