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Following notes from http://openvpn.net/howto.html#install
 
Following notes from http://openvpn.net/howto.html#install
 
  apt-get update
 
  apt-get update
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ls -la /dev/net/tun
 
  apt-get -y install openvpn carpaltunnel
 
  apt-get -y install openvpn carpaltunnel
  # Select "yes" when the installer asks about creating the tun device.
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  # Answer "yes" when the installer asks about creating the tun device.
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# Answer "no" when asked about stopping VPN service (there is none)
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ls -la /dev/net/tun
  
 
= Configuring =
 
= Configuring =

Revision as of 22:41, 1 December 2005

The goal is to create a simple VPN between two machines on a network. The VPN software will be OpenVPN under Knoppix 4.0.2CD using a persistent disk image (PDI).


Setup

Create and boot with a persistent disk image. 500 MB should be plenty big.

Installing

Following notes from http://openvpn.net/howto.html#install

apt-get update
ls -la /dev/net/tun
apt-get -y install openvpn carpaltunnel
# Answer "yes" when the installer asks about creating the tun device.
# Answer "no" when asked about stopping VPN service (there is none)
ls -la /dev/net/tun

Configuring

Following example from http://openvpn.net/man.html#lbAV

lsmod| grep tun
modprobe tun
lsmod| grep tun