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--remote in openvpn

I am trying to configure openvpn. As I read there is an option "--remote". It says the client the IP address of server to connect. Now my question is, is it possible to use "--remote" in server config ...
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How do I access SSID info from postup() in Gentoo's OpenRC /etc/conf.d/net

I would like to fire up openvpn (or stop it) depending on what wireless network I'm connected to. But dumping env from postup() does not indicate ${SSID} being available at that time. Staring at ...
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Windows 7 Professional VPS adding a VPN over VNC

I have a Windows 7 Professional VPS and I'd like to setup a VPN on it but I only have VNC access. I'm worried that if I setup it up incorrectly I'll lose access from my VNC client and have to request ...
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using tun0 on centos6

I'm connected to a VPN known to work from server-side (I can connect to it on Windows). I cannot use the VPN on Centos6. ping -I tun0 www.google.com Warning: cannot bind to specified iface, falling ...
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OpenVPN Tunnel in Tunnel

I want to connect to my OpenVPN server which inside the campus network from the internet. Getting into the campus network is possible through SSH or (another) OpenVPN connection. After that I can ...
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Routing to one IP via different gateways

I have an OpenVPN connection (point to point). When program connects to server it gets IP and Gateway dynamically, from server. I need to make windows add route to my secure server through given ...
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Adding route for tap0 interface under Mac OSX Lion

I have this really rather odd situation where I'm running Virtual Machine in one VPN (interface tap0) and main machine in other (tun0) using VirtualBox and Tunnelblick (OpenVPN connections). I need to ...
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OpenVPN vs. SOCKS proxy

I've been trying to set up a secure connection over which I can browse the internet, and it seems like there are two options, and SSH SOCKS proxy or OpenVPN (at least, those two are what I have found, ...
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Using (Squid) Caching Proxy with (HideMyAss) OpenVPN VPN

I've set up Squid proxy, and I confirmed it's working on my PC. Note: To be able to use the Internet with better speed, I have to forward to another parent proxy (my university's proxy). Now I'm ...
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How to route traffic from VM (Parallels) over an Open VPN connection on the host (OS X)

Scenario: I have a Mac running Lion that is connected to an OpenVPN server I have a Windows XP VM (running on parallels, but I don't think this is important) I want to be able to route traffic from ...
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Unable to connect to OpenVPN server

I'm trying to get a working setup of OpenVPN on my VM and authenticate into it from a client. I'm not sure but it looks to me like it's socket related, as it's not set to LISTEN, and localhost seems ...
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Is there any way to treat the OpenVPN connected clients list as a hosts file or DNS source?

I would really like for clients on my VPN to be able to use the client names from the OpenVPN licenses as DNS names. If, for example, my machine is connected with the client name tgm-desktop then I'd ...
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Route all traffic via OpenVPN client

I've got OpenVPN client running on 192.168.0.3. What I'd like to do is route all the traffic from the second computer with 192.168.0.100 via OpenVPN client that's running on the first computer. My ...
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How to establish a VPN connection over a HTTP Proxy using OpenVPN?

I'm trying to connect to a VPN server on my home network from work. The server is running on port 443 and I have verified that I can connect to it from another home PC using my internet IP and port ...
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Installing OpenVPN on Fedora 12

I've tried installing OpenVPN on my pc. My PC would act as the server, and it's connected to a lan. I've followed the instructions given here. Unlike was what assumed in the instructions, my pc only ...
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OpenVPN Connects but can't see network

I can connect to the firewall but cannot get to the lan. The lan can ping the interface of the open vpn gateway. My workstation cannot ping the interface of the openvpn gateway. I tried setting a ...
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Connect to VPN via integrated MacOSX tool

I have following openvpn.conf from my old PC: port 11194 dev tap remote vpn.company.com proto tcp-client tls-client tls-remote vpn.company.com ca /etc/ssl/certs/CompanyCA.pem cert ...
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Moving OpenVPN client files from Users directory in Windows 7?

I've been using the OpenVPN client in Windows 7 and it leaves two files in my Users directory. One is a log file and one is a json file. If I move them they are re-created. Does anyone know a way to ...
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OpenVPN access to a private network

There are many similar topics about my issue, however I cannot figure out a solution for myself. There are three hosts. A without a routable address but with an Internet access. Server S with a ...
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DD-WRT OpenVPN Voip

I have a TL_WR1043ND router with DD-WRT firmware. I've successfully configured OpenVpn on my router. I've got openVpn from a commercial VPN provider. I VOIP GSM gateway is connected with the eht0 port ...
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OpenVPN: No connection unless you connect to one of the specified configs. Is it possible?

What I want is ... to restrict the traffic on my PC. I would like to tunnel every single piece of data through my VPN. Which is hard, since after my PC started, the autorun stuff just starts, and ...
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Tunnel Splitting with Openvpn Acess Server

I want to be able to use my vpn for all nonbrowsing applications that require the internet (eg steam, sc2, etc) and use my normal internet for browsing (chrome, etc). How can this be done? Can it be ...
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With Windows 7 how to access a network with an other domain name?

I want to access my company's internal network from my home (on a PC running WIndows 7). I received configuration details to use with OpenVPN and connected successfully (according to OpenVPN log). I ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 OpenVPN config

I'm trying to setup a vpn server with an old box I have at my office. I only have a single ethernet port and saw on reddit that it was possible to use only one to create a vpn server. The problem is ...
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Sending Packets to tap0 interface

I've been trying to send packets to a tap interface using python. I'm monitoring the tap interface using wireshark and no packets are being received. I'm doing this as an exercise mainly to help my ...
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dd-wrt Guest network with OpenVPN possible?

I have a WNDR3700v2 and a WRT120N for routers. I was originally planning on having the WNDR3700v2 be the primary router that connects to the modem and then the WRT120N connected to that which I would ...
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PFsense OpenVPN traffic getting routed through WAN rather than IPsec tunnel

So I have a PFsense firewall setup with a IPsec tunnel created to access a special webpage housed at another companies website. Internal traffic routes properly through the IPsec tunnel for this ...
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Is it possible to connect to OpenVPN on Windows, without a 3rd-party client?

The title says it all. Is it possible to connect to OpenVPN from Windows 7, without using a 3rd party VPN client? Can I use the native Windows VPN functionality alone?
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Can't get OpenVPN to start on Ubuntu Linux 10.04

I went through the easy-rsa setup on a server (Ubuntu Desktop) that didn't have OpenVPN on it before. I think everything is set up. However, when I try to start the service (sudo service openvpn ...
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Can't get OpenVPN to start on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Can't get OpenVPN to start on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 I went through the easy-rsa setup on a server (Ubuntu Desktop) that didn't have OpenVPN on it before. I think ...
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Setup routing and iptables for new VPN connection to redirect **only** ports 80 and 443

I have a new VPN connection (using openvpn) to allow me to route around some ISP restrictions. Whilst it is working fine, it is taking all the traffic over the vpn. This is causing me issues for ...
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Can I browse the web using the UDP protocol?

Is it possible to browse the web if a firewall is blocking the HTTP protocol? I've read about OpenVPN UDP tunnelling, but is it possible to use the web via the UDP protocol?
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Will a slow upload rate have a negative impact on VPN usage?

Will my slow upload speed (1MBit cap on my fiber line) significantly reduce the performance of my connection over a VPN? I'm in mainland China and am considering getting a VPS server in Hong Kong ...
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How come LogMeIn is able to connect to an Office computer even when the VPN client does not run?

I am using LogMeIn to control my office machine (Win 7) from home (Win XP). In order to do that, I installed the OpenVPN client to connect to the VPN server at the office's intranet. The ...
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Is it possible to route internet traffic when OpenVPN connection is active?

I use an OpenVPN client to connect to my office network to run a remote control client (VNC, LogMeIn) from home. I think that the server is the Untangle OpenVPN server. My understanding is that while ...
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OpenVPN with two NIC

I have setup OpenVPN server on my Citrix XenServer with the following NIC: NIC#1: Setup to connect to the Internet with a static IP. NIC#2: Setup to interface with other machines connected to this ...
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Where can I find a free, simple VMWare VPN Appliance

I'm wondering where I can find a free, simple VMWare VPN appliance (or VPN server I can run within windows). Something I can get up and running in 10 minutes, with minimal configuration. Needs to run ...
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How to set up User/Password based authentication on OpenVPN / Windows?

I've got a Windows XP SP3 server, and I'd like to turn it into an OpenVPN server. However, I can't figure it out how to enable/use user/password authentication instead of the certificates. (I know, ...
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Making SELinux play nice with OpenVPN (in NetworkManager)

I have been trying to use OpenVPN to connect to my work network. Using it via the command line works fine: openvpn user.conf I haven't bothered to set it up with DNS properly though, and it looks ...
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Clavister VPN Access

Error-Message during login: Unable to update interface address for TUN/TAP interface: OS:Windows 7 Pro. 64-Bit Clavister-VPN-Client: 1.0.1.3 Windows 7 UAC is enabled Connection works with ...
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Problem playing games using OpenVPN that use broadcast packets. Other games work, hosts can ping each other

I'm running an OpenVPN server in bridged mode and clients can successfully connect, see shared folder and play LAN games that let you enter the LAN IP address. However I'm unable to play games like ...
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openVPN http-proxy-option version (EXT1)?

I have a question about http-proxy-option in openVPN. I have a client *.ovpn file which works on Windows, but doesn't work on Mac OS X or Linux. Here is my client config file (key and certificate are ...
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Routing everything except a certain IP range through an OpenVPN tunnel

I've been working with my OpenVPN server for a while, and I have a rather interesting problem. I need to redirect all client traffic through the tunnel except for a couple IP's that need to be ...
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Can't install tap driver using tapinstall.exe for OpenVPN when run from a .bat file, but it works when running OpenVPN installer

When I run "..\bin\tapinstall.exe" install "..\driver\OemWin2k.inf" tap0901 To add the tap driver, all I get back is a "failed" message with no details and the tap driver is not ...
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VPN routing for selected hosts only

I have TomatoVPN runing with blackVPN and I'd like to achieve something like this if it's even possible to do it on TomatoVPN. I've come up with this but it doesn't work... nothing works after this ...
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Merge a remote network into main network, via VPN?

I've gotten an appartment in a city 25 000km from home as I'll be living there during the weeks, in this appartment I'll have one Mac Pro (10.7), one MacBook Pro (10.6) and maybe one Windows 7 Laptop. ...
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Connecting to multiple computers via SSH behind only only one public IP?

I have the following predicament. I find myself becoming more and more used (albeit paid) as the "computer guy" in the neighborhood for "fixing" common "issues." Being a hacker, I've thought of ...
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OpenVPN config - can't locate local IP?

I am trying to install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 11.04 using this guide. I am already running into an issue while configuring /etc/network/interfaces - my file looks nothing like theirs. Mine is on the left, ...
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Fedora 15 Open VPN wont connect

Ive been trying to get a VPN connection working in fedora 15 using Open VPN through network manager, I setup the connection following this tutorial. However it doesnt connect and doesnt give me a ...
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Problem with connecting to a OpenVPN Server

My client has given me a OpenVPN client file (.ovpn) and I have to connect to his server. I have no experience with OpenVPN. I installed it and tried this command: openvpn --config ...

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