Proteus wrote:
> Ok I am going to take the plunge and try installing openVPN and try
> getting it to work. If anybody can help me along I would really appreciate
> it. I printed out the HOW-TO install guide from http://openvpn.net and
> will do my best. A little hand-holding would be appreciate, I know enought
> to be dangerous. I use Mandriva LE2005, been using Linux for several
> years. As I use wifi with my laptop out and about at cafes, I want to set
> up a VPN between my wifi laptop and a home PC running a VPN server program.
>
> I have urpmi setup, so I am first going to try installing openVPN on both
> my laptop and Desktop (to serve VPN).

There are many different ways of setting up OpenVPN.

My recommendation is:

- tunneling at network layer (use tun0, not tap0),
- a separate RFC1918 subnet for the VPN (e.g. 192.168.x.y)
- UDP transport on the standard port (1194),
- SSL encryption and key exchange

An option to public-key SSL is to use pre-shared keys.

The details are in OpenVPN documentation.

HTH

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi