[CentOS] HOW TO SETUP VPN ON CENTOS

Tue Dec 5 19:23:53 UTC 2006
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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> Do you have a lot of experience with this VPN solution?  Is it rock 
> solid reliable?


openVPN is by far the cleanest, easiest to setup and easiest to use VPN 
I've seen to date.  It can handle LAN to LAN tunnels, client to LAN, 
client to host, all sorts of combinations, its quite easy to setup the 
routing, etc etc.

it uses a simple SSL socket as its transport, so its friendly with 'NAT' 
firewall/routers. 

there's a GUI client for windows, you can give that to someone, and give 
them a config file for it with prebuilt public keys, they install the 
GUI client, then drop the conf file into the right directory and they 
are online in seconds.