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OpenVPN setup tutorial?
Hello Guys & Gals
Since today Austrias (whole EU in fact) home ISPs implemented the notorious "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" (Data retention) i'm setting up a VPN in our Swiss location for my usage.
I thought first about using PPTP which is easy to setup but also slower (IIRC) - I'm looking to be able to push 50-100Mbit Down and 5-10Mbit up.
So does anyone have a tutorial for that?
Looking for:
Key auth (no passwords)
Static IP for every client (based on Username for the VPN maybe? or the MAC of the client?)
Not too high encryption, just basic - Prefer Speed over Security
Anyone knows how to do this? Rewarding a year of EDIS KVM Micro in any location of your choice for a fully working solution
William
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I followed the Linode library and its probably the easiest to understand.
Just install openvpn-AS. It only takes 2 commands.
So your decision was not wise. Switzerland has a data retention act since 2002. Which is btw controlled by one of the Swiss Counter Intelligence Agencies. Germany is the only country in the EU that does not have a data retention as it is against the German constitution.
Interesting, Openvpn-AS works fine but i'm too dumb to assign users static external IPs - Any idea?
I just selected "Layer 2 (ethernet bridging)" at the VPN Mode without specifing a bridge and assigned the user a static external IP in his user settings which is not bound to any interface on the KVM im running on.
Doesn't work.
Do i need to create a bridge manually or assign the IP to eth0?
I trust the Swiss guys more than our own.
It is against ours also, Germany WILL have to implement it or they will have to drop out of the EU or pay high fees for every day they don't (like we had to).
Besides this, Germany has other laws which are not prefferable for anyone and other restrictions which are annoying like blocked youtube and other video sites.
After all this is just a demo setup, i also have servers in other countries i can use - Ukraine, Russia, Liechtenstein, Norway and the Isle of Man to name a few.
I use NAT its easier to setup
Now that would be interesting
i want each user to use his own, external (thus public), static, IPv4 IP instead of the usual "shared" Host IPv4.
Clear enough?
Certainly, but for usability reasons i can't use that.
Yes, if traffic would not be so expensive
At which provider have you looked? Server.lu offers 1TB for 10€ that's really ok.
Luxemburg != Liechtenstein ;-)
Damn, sorry
Ovh offers 1TB for 89p (Around $1.40)
I did this a while back following this tutorial:
http://forums.openvpn.net/topic8559.html
How to resolve this?
Isn't Netherlands the best for that?
Where is this error?
I get stuck at
My configuration is
Are you using access server or normal openvpn?
I modified the default OpenVPN Windows GUI file to the same sample as
/usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/client.conf
now, I dont get the error message or the user/pass prompt but it does not connect eitherNote for newbies @ VPN (like me), look at
/var/log/daemon.log
. It looks like tun/tap is not available on my container. Opened a ticket with my VPS provider, this will fix the problem for sureIf ur running AS, make sure they enable the extra firewall rules otherwise AS will not start
I gotta admit, I just tried OpenVPN-AS and found it much easier to setup then doing keys manually all the time.
Also the fact that it plugs into PAM is cooool.
OpenVPN-AS 's page seems to be outdate (updated for ubuntu 10 only) is it still alive the project?
Dudee this thread is 5 Months old! wtf, dont revive old threads to gain post posts.
Yes it is still alive, and thanks for revieving ... I had no idea that the data retention shit had happened over here in Austria.
VPN on ...
I can help you with the configuration if you can provide me a KVM and some unused static Internet IP.