OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 10.  Advanced Configuration

 In this chapter, we will cover:

• Including configuration files in config files
• Multiple remotes and remote-random
• Inline certificates
• Connection blocks
• Details of ifconfig-pool-persist
• Connecting using a SOCKS proxy
• Connecting via an HTTP proxy
• Connecting via an HTTP proxy with authentication
• IP-less setups - ifconfig-noexec
• Port sharing with an HTTPS server
• Routing features - redirect-private, allow-pull-fqdn
• Filtering out pushed options
• Handing out public IP addresses

Introduction

The recipes in this last chapter will cover the advanced configuration of OpenVPN. This chapter will focus on some of the less well-known configuration options that OpenVPN offers, as well as some advanced recipes for real-life deployments. The ...