On Wednesday 31 May 2006 07:22, Brett Serkez wrote: > Tom, > > > I have looked at OpenVPN but for some reason i'm having issues with > > generating certificates using their howto and i used the rpm from Dag. > > While i continue my fight with this is there any other options out there? > > I replied to your issue on the OpenVPN mailing list, it is the way you > are setting your environment. > > When running behind the NAT firewall, you will need a rule in the > firewall to forward the inbound connection to the VPN. Once the > connection is established, all traffic will pass thru the NAT/Firewall > over this connection. > > I am running the setup you are describing, using Windows and both > Fedora and CentOS and it is rock solid. > > Brett > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos He's right, i've deployed openvpn in many weird places and it works almost out of the box :) I agree that the ssl key generation is a bit odd to do at first but once you get used to it it's just a simple task like anything else. Here i wrote a small article about me liking openvpn and all, but does include a small procedure and explanation of terminology used for ssl config. The page is in french so i translated it with google translate. http://blog.eglis.com/index.php/2005/09/09/23-openvpn-c-est-trippan http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.eglis.com%2Findex.php%2F2005%2F09%2F09%2F23-openvpn-c-est-trippan&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 Later charles