[PLUG] Roll-your-own VPN server?
David Bridges
dbridges at austin.rr.com
Wed Jul 4 14:06:18 UTC 2018
The tutorial at https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN is fairly easy to
follow and will produce a nice stable VPN although you will need to
tweak it some for specific situations.
--
David
On Wed, 2018-07-04 at 08:52 +0200, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> OpenVPN does what you need. There are good clients for almost any
> device.
>
> Servers, can be build and configured on any distro or used prebuild.
>
> Tomas
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 5:44 AM David Barr <dafydd at dafydd.com> wrote:
>
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > If I were to build a VPN server for transient client connections,
> > like
> > mobile devices or laptops, what would you recommend?
> >
> > - Bonus points for using certificates for the server ~and clients~,
> > so
> > devices would have to be "registered" in advance.
> > - Bonus points for requiring 2FA on top of that, to reduce the risk
> > of a
> > lost/stolen device.
> >
> > I haven't looked in a while, but I recall OpenVPN was really
> > oriented
> > towards setting up permanent connections, and configuring for
> > transient
> > connections was really convoluted.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > David
> >
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