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Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
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Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine. Julio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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VPN deployments using OpenVPN

As discussed previously, OpenVPN is a versatile VPN protocol and works well both in site-to-site and remote user deployments. Let's assume a similar scenario to the one we used in the IPsec site-to-site topic as an example to start this section.

Site-to-site deployment

In the following topology, you will notice that the tunnel network has a 10.10.10.0/30 address with just two usable addresses, one to each firewall:

Figure 8.9 – OpenVPN site-to-site topology example

We will configure this tunnel using a shared key to stay on the same track as our previous IPsec example. OpenVPN supports authentication using certificates for site-to-site deployments, although this chapter will look at it later, in the remote user deployment topic.

OpenVPN uses a client-server approach, so to define which side of the tunnel should be set as a server or client, you should take these things into consideration:

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Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine. Julio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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