[PLUG] OpenVPN for noobs...

[John Medway]

You also might want to take a look at a canned system, like Zerina for 
IPCop and Smoothwall, and dissect what it does under the hood.



At 02:23 PM 12/3/2008, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Eitan Tsur wrote:
>
> > I'd like to set up an OpenVPN server for a network with about 5
> > clients. Can someone please direct me to some newbie-friendly
> > documentation on this system?
>
>OpenVPN is in some ways very simple to run, but the concepts it
>expects the local administrator to have mastered -- especially network
>topology and SSL public-key infrastructure -- are difficult to
>encapsulate in a brief HOWTO. Indeed, the OpenVPN HOWTO runs 15,000+
>words and contains 24 subhead links:
>
>    http://www.openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html
>
>The easy-rsa scripts that ship with OpenVPN are a good start for
>certificate generation and maintenance, but they're not really a
>substitute for a general understanding of public key infrastructures.
>
>If you're asking for something more specific, I'll try to help, but
>your original request is so broad that it's difficult to know what
>obstacles you're trying to overcome.
>
>--
>Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
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