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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 Redhat Fedora Using yum


If you are using Redhat Fedora, the Yellow dog Updater, Modified (yum) is probably the easiest way to install software. It can be found on http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ and provides many interesting features like automatic updates, solving dependency problems, and managing installation of software packages.

Even though OpenVPN installation on Fedora can only be done on the command line, it still is a very easy task. The installation makes use of the commands wget, rpm, and yum.

  • wget: A command-line download manager suitable for ftp or http downloads.

  • rpm: The Redhat Package Manager is a software management system used by distributions like SuSE or Redhat. It keeps track of changes and can solve dependencies between programs.

  • yum: This provides a simple installation program for RPM-based software.

To use yum, you have to adapt its configuration file as follows:

  1. 1. Log in as administrator (root).

  2. 2. Change to Fedora's configuration directory...