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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

You're reading from   OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks Learn how to build secure VPNs using this powerful Open Source application

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2006
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811855
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

OpenVPN
1. Credits
2. About the Author
3. About the Reviewers
4. Preface
1. VPN—Virtual Private Network FREE CHAPTER 2. VPN Security 3. OpenVPN 4. Installing OpenVPN 5. Configuring an OpenVPN Server—The First Tunnel 6. Setting Up OpenVPN with X509 Certificates 7. The Command openvpn and its Configuration File 8. Securing OpenVPN Tunnels and Servers 9. Advanced Certificate Management 10. Advanced OpenVPN Configuration 11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring Index

The Project Community


OpenVPN project has its own website, including downloads of new versions and updates, documentation, howtos, mailing lists, and links to various VPN-related pages. A project page can hardly be better than that of OpenVPN. You'll find it at http://openvpn.net/.

The most important source of help is the mailing lists: http://openvpn.net/mail.html.

Since we are using SSL/TLS for encryption purposes, you certainly want to understand this toolkit. The SSL/TLS Cryptographic libraries website provides detailed documentation and mailing lists, which can be found at http://www.openssl.org/.

The website of the TLS Charter by the TLS Working Group provides a list with many related RFCs and Internet drafts you might consider helpful: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tls-charter.html.

The Universal TUN/TAP driver can be downloaded from the following page: http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/. Nevertheless, this should not be necessary, since every modern distribution (and kernel) should...

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