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Tunnelblick is free opensource GUI for MAC OS X its a great alternative to OpenVPN GUI.
This thread will show you how it is easy to configure and use Tunnelblick, if you used a OpenVPN GUI before you can copy your configuration and your certificate files to your MAC.
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This is my second OpenVPN road warrior setup, I write this post from my first pre created drafts. Its more than one year ago, I combined some steps and command, to make it human readable and a little bit friendly :)
Setup map:
First we need to install the needed OpenVPN package:
1 | aptitude update && aptitude install openvpn |
Copy the helper scripts to make the life easier, they will help you to create keys and certificates: Continue reading ‘OpenVPN Road Warrior Setup’
Some days ago I was informed by Ananjan Chaudhuri about the new OpenVPN 2 Cookbook written by Jan Just Keijser, I love OpenVPN and I took a look in to the free sample chapters. I found them really interesting, because I use OpenVPN to establish secure tunnel between my WAN MySQL-Server Databases and my email server.
To red my private emails on my mobile phone I prefer to use a secure connection to my IMAP-server.
Ananjan offered me Continue reading ‘OpenVPN 2 Cookbook’
Before I changed to OpenVPN I used racoon IPSEC tool. It was very unstable for my setup, because one VPN site has a dynamical IP-Address and only with dirty workarounds was it possible to use it.
After some unsuccessful tries with openswan:( I decided to try OpenVPN and I had luck I found very useful blog of (Sébastien Wains) which was my clue to my working VPN.
I draw a little map of my VPN setup:
Continue reading ‘OpenVPN site to site setup’