Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

Starting and testing a client

Once the server is running, you can start a client. Like the server, the client side of OpenVPN is created with the openvpn command. Again, the important part of this output is the Initialization Sequence Completed line:

# openvpn client.conf 
Wed Jan 11 12:34:14 2017 OpenVPN 2.3.4 i586-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [IPv6] built on Nov 19 2015 
Wed Jan 11 12:34:14 2017 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.1t  3 May 2016, LZO 2.08... 
 
 
 
 
Wed Jan 11 12:34:17 2017 /sbin/ipaddr add dev tun0 local 10.8.0.6 peer 10.8.0.5 
Wed Jan 11 12:34:17 2017 /sbin/ip route add 10.8.0.1/32 via 10.8.0.5 
Wed Jan 11 12:34:17 2017 Initialization Sequence Completed 

Using the ifconfig command, you can confirm that the tunnel ...