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Does anyone know a good linux VPN?

Does anyone know a good linux VPN service that I could install on my server to allow users to connect to it?
I don't want them to connect to the server as such but just want them to appear that they have a country specific IP address. I currently do this with a proxy server but that is for HTPP only.
Will they need client software to run this?

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Originally Posted by Meson (Post 3689720)

OpenVPN

Does the client need some software to connect? If so, what's best?
Most people won't know how to configure a VPN.

When the client connects by VPN, are all their requests just passed on from my server through outgoing ports?

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Generate the master Certificate Authority (CA) certificate & key

In this section we will generate a master CA certificate/key, a server certificate/key, and certificates/keys for 3 separate clients.

For PKI management, we will use a set of scripts bundled with OpenVPN.

If you are using Linux, BSD, or a unix-like OS, open a shell and cd to the easy-rsa subdirectory of the OpenVPN distribution. If you installed OpenVPN from an RPM file, the easy-rsa directory can usually be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/openvpn or /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.0 (it's best to copy this directory to another location such as /etc/openvpn, before any edits, so that future OpenVPN package upgrades won't overwrite your modifications). If you installed from a .tar.gz file, the easy-rsa directory will be in the top level directory of the expanded source tree.

I have installed using yum install openvpn but cannot find the easy-rsa directory. Any ideas?

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I have installed using yum install openvpn but cannot find the easy-rsa directory. Any ideas?

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I have installed using yum install openvpn but cannot find the easy-rsa directory. Any ideas?

It is located in,

/usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa

Regards,

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Prasanta

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Originally Posted by prasanta (Post 3689799)

It is located in,

/usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa

Regards,

--
Prasanta

lol - that's what the instructions already said! :)

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[root@localhost usr]# locate easy-rsa
[root@localhost usr]# cd /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa
-bash: cd: /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa: No such file or directory
[root@localhost usr]# locate openvpn
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-2.50/openvpn
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-2.50/openvpn/README
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-2.50/openvpn/dhclient-enter-hooks
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-2.50/openvpn/dnsmasq.patch
/usr/share/doc/selinux-policy-2.4.6/html/services_openvpn.html
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/openvpn.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/openvpn
[root@localhost usr]#

anyone have any ideas?

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Originally Posted by qwertyjjj (Post 3690059)

anyone have any ideas?

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yum install openvpn should do the job but it doesn't seem to install the easy-rsa folder?

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Originally Posted by qwertyjjj (Post 3689806)

Did you try "updatedb" before issuing that locate command?

locate doesn't automagically know about files just because you installed them.

Any other recommendations other than OpenVPN?
I have been having immense trouble getting traffic to go from the client to the server depsite spending 2 days on configuration and on openvpn mailing lists.

freeswan is another, although it isn't updated for many years, it's still a decent vpn solution.
It uses a different approach to vpn communication as to openvpn.

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Originally Posted by teebones (Post 3693158)

freeswan is another, although it isn't updated for many years, it's still a decent vpn solution.
It uses a different approach to vpn communication as to openvpn.

Does that come with a Windows client version, do you know?
Can't find one so far...