Re: Openvpn Fedora tutorial?

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Timothy Murphy wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:

Is there a good tutorial for openvpn under Fedora?
I've followed the instructions at
<http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=595436>
but they seem to have made things worse rather than better.

Did you try the fairly obvious http://www.openvpn.net/ Instructions
there worked for me, on C4, Debian, RHL 7.3 and opensuse 10.2. I think I
had it on Windows at one point too.

I did indeed look at this site.
Unfortunately I did not see anything that could be called a good tutorial.
I found the whole site rather muddled,
Oh.
one click from the home page to the howto not good enough?

and far too full of self-praise about openvpn.

He has a good product with a good price and a good licence. If he didn't say so, would anyone use it?



The OpenVPN Quickstart starts with a discussion
of the advantages and disadvantages of a Static Key
without ever explaining what a Static Key is.

The OpenVPN 2.0 HOWTO starts with a discussion
"whether to use a routed or bridged VPN",

You want routed. Probably.

again with no explanation of what the difference is.
from the howto:
<<Z
Intended Audience

This HOWTO assumes that readers possess a prior understanding of basic networking concepts such as IP addresses, DNS names, netmasks, subnets, IP routing, routers, network interfaces, LANs, gateways, and firewall rules.

If you don't have a handle on these basics, but would still like to set up OpenVPN, I would encourage you to hire an OpenVPN expert on a consulting basis. Many of the authors on the articles page are available for consulting, or you can contact the creators of OpenVPN at info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Z

It's not intended to be, and should not be, a tutorial on networking. My first Linux book (before I used Linux) was the Linux NAG, Network Administrators Guide, by Olaf Kirch. It's available as a free download, maybe at The Linux Documentation Project. Hopefully, it's been updated, a lot has changed since the 1.0 and 1.1 kernels.






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