We have recently moved our business location, and need to setup a VPN server/endpoint at the new location. I am a little vague with VPN, so please help me out! We have a Suse 11 server, that is basically a test box looking for a purpose at the moment, and I was thinking I could utilise that to allow users to setup a connection on their home computer (be they Windows - probably... - or whatever), to VPN into the work LAN and map drives etc... We previously had a router that had VPN endpoints on it, but this is no longer in use. Have done lots of Googling for VPN/Suse/endpoint etc, but have not really come up with the conclusive howto on setting this up.. I am assuming also that if we do this, the modem/router needs to have "VPN passthrough" (preferably multiple) to enable access to the server...? This can't be setup just by forwarding ports, etc?? Thanks for all/any help! John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Bennett escribió:
Have done lots of Googling for VPN/Suse/endpoint etc, but have not really come up with the conclusive howto on setting this up..
Setting up a VPN that just works is fairly simple. for the server or linux clients zypper in openvpn then read http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html For windows clients, install the binaries from openvpn.net, last time I did this, took only minutes to get running. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:39:14PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
John Bennett escribió:
Have done lots of Googling for VPN/Suse/endpoint etc, but have not really come up with the conclusive howto on setting this up..
Setting up a VPN that just works is fairly simple.
for the server or linux clients
zypper in openvpn
then read http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html
For windows clients, install the binaries from openvpn.net, last time I did this, took only minutes to get running.
I strongly suggest to use the YaST CA management to handle all the certificate stuff. By security reasons you might run this on a more secured, disconnected host. Each of your openvpn client or server then reference "ca my-cacert.pem" in the /etc/openvpn/<yourname>.conf file. I'm very, very happy with the state of this stuff now. Very well done Michael <mc>! Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
John Bennett wrote:
We have recently moved our business location, and need to setup a VPN server/endpoint at the new location. I am a little vague with VPN, so please help me out! We have a Suse 11 server, that is basically a test box looking for a purpose at the moment, and I was thinking I could utilise that to allow users to setup a connection on their home computer (be they Windows - probably... - or whatever), to VPN into the work LAN and map drives etc... We previously had a router that had VPN endpoints on it, but this is no longer in use. Have done lots of Googling for VPN/Suse/endpoint etc, but have not really come up with the conclusive howto on setting this up.. I am assuming also that if we do this, the modem/router needs to have "VPN passthrough" (preferably multiple) to enable access to the server...? This can't be setup just by forwarding ports, etc??
Thanks for all/any help! John.
Suse includes OpenVPN, which is an excellent VPN. It works with Linux, Windows and other. And yes, you'll have to open the necessary port. The default (IIRC) is UDP port 1194, though you can change that or even use a TCP port. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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