OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks: Learn How to Build Secure VPNs Using this Powerful Open Source Application
- 3h 23m
- Markus Feilner
- Packt Publishing
- 2006
OpenVPN is a powerful, open source SSL VPN application. It can secure site-to-site connections, WiFi and enterprise-scale remote connections. While being a full-featured VPN solution, OpenVPN is easy to use and does not suffer from the complexity that characterizes other IPSec VPN implementations. It uses the secure and stable TLS/SSL mechanisms for authentication and encryption.
This book is an easy introduction to this popular VPN application. After introducing the basics of security and VPN, the book moves on to cover using OpenVPN, from installing it on various platforms, through configuring basic tunnels, to more advanced features, such as using the application with firewalls, routers, proxy servers, and OpenVPN scripting.
While providing only necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting plenty of examples.
About the Author
Markus Feilner is a Linux professional from Regensburg, Germany, and has been working with open-source software since the mid 1990s. His first contact with UNIX was a SUN cluster and SPARC workstations at Regensburg University (during his studies of geography). Since the year 2000, he has published several documents used in Linux training all over Germany. In 2001, he founded his own Linux consulting and training company, Feilner IT.
He was working as a trainer, consultant, and systems engineer at Millenux, Munich, where he focused on groupware, collaboration, and virtualization with Linux-based systems and networks.
Since 2007, he is an editor at the German Linux-Magazine, where he is writing about Open-Source-Software for both printed and online magazines, including the Linux Technical Review and the Linux Magazine International. He regularly holds speeches and lectures at conferences in Germany.
Markus Feilner supports Linux4afrika - a project bringing Linux computers into African schools.
In this Book
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VPN—Virtual Private Network
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VPN Security
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OpenVPN
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Installing OpenVPN
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Configuring an OpenVPN Server—The First Tunnel
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Setting Up OpenVPN with X509 Certificates
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The Command Openvpn and its Configuration File
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Securing OpenVPN Tunnels and Servers
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Advanced Certificate Management
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Advanced OpenVPN Configuration
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Troubleshooting and Monitoring
