Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "Copy over the tls-auth secret key file from the /etc/openvpn/cookbook/keys directory."

A block of code is set as follows:

user  nobody
group nobody
persist-tun
persist-key
keepalive 10 60
ping-timer-rem

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

secret secret.key 1
ifconfig 10.200.0.2 10.200.0.1
route 172.31.32.0 255.255.255.0
 

tun-ipv6

ifconfig-ipv6 2001:db8:100::2 2001:db8:100::1

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

[root@server]# openvpn --genkey --secret secret.key

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Go to the Network and Sharing Center and observe that the TAP adapter is in the section Public Network and that it is not possible to change this."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.