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Troubleshooting OpenVPN

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Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461964

Pages 178 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Eric F Crist

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Troubleshooting OpenVPN

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About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Troubleshooting Basics

2. Common Problems

3. Installing OpenVPN

4. The Log File

5. Client and Server Startup

6. Certificates and Authentication

7. Network and Routing

8. Performance

9. External Problems

Common installation problems

OpenVPN installation problems can be classified into a few major categories: adapter or driver problems, lack of necessary permissions, and broken installers. It is also possible that the existing packages for your chosen operating system either do not exist or are greatly out of date.

Compiling OpenVPN

On Linux and Unix systems, compiling from source can sometimes be the only way to get OpenVPN installed. There are packages available for the majority of operating system releases, but there are custom systems (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OpenWrt, and so on) that may not have the latest version of OpenVPN available. Given a proper development environment, the OpenVPN installation should be pretty straightforward.

The required development environment basically consists of the following software components:

autoconf (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/)
automake (http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/)
C code compilers, such as gcc, clang, msvc, and cc, should all work...

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Authors (1)

Eric F Crist

Eric F Crist hails from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and he works as a product and systems engineer for Abbott. He has a relatively wide range of professional and life experience starting from physical security and access control as a low-voltage technician into software development, system administration, and software development. Eric has been a core member of the OpenVPN community since 2008 and helps manage the open source online resources. He also wrote ssl-admin, and he is a lead for Easy-RSA, both of which help manage Certificate Authorities and chains. Eric collaborated with Jan Just Keisjer for the book, Mastering OpenVPN, in 2015, also for Packt.

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