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Mastering OpenVPN
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Mastering OpenVPN

by Eric F Crist, Jan Just Keijser
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
364 pages
7h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Initial setup of the client/server mode

In order to set up a basic OpenVPN server, we first create a server configuration file using the following steps:

  1. Create the following file
    proto udp
    port 1194
    dev tun
    server 10.200.0.0 255.255.255.0
    topology subnet
    persist-key
    persist-tun
    keepalive 10 60
    
    dh       /etc/openvpn/movpn/dh2048.pem
    ca       /etc/openvpn/movpn/movpn-ca.crt
    cert     /etc/openvpn/movpn/server.crt
    key      /etc/openvpn/movpn/server.key
    
    user  nobody
    group nobody  # use ‘group nogroup’ on Debian/Ubuntu
    
    verb 3
    daemon
    log-append /var/log/openvpn.log
  2. Then, save it as movpn-04-01-server.conf. A detailed explanation of each of the configuration lines will be given later.
  3. Start the OpenVPN server:
    [root@server] # openvpn --config movpn-04-01-server.conf
    
  4. The command ...
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