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title: Playing with OpenVPN
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  display_name: manu
  login: manu
  email: manu@santoro.tk
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excerpt: Some friends of mine are real network-junkies, and do neat things with networking
  technologies. I’ve seen things, you humans cannot imagine. By the way, one
  of the first things I wanted to try is setting up a VPN and do<p><a href="http://santoro.tk/blog/?p=235">Continue
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wordpress_url: http://santoro.tk/blog/?p=235
date: '2013-10-13 01:23:20 +0000'
date_gmt: '2013-10-12 23:23:20 +0000'
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- PlanetPOuL
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<p>Some friends of mine are real network-junkies, and do neat things with networking technologies. <strong>I&#8217;ve seen things, you humans cannot imagine</strong>.</p>
<p>By the way, one of the first things I wanted to try is setting up a VPN and do some tunnelling.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve set up a very basic point-to-point vpn connection using OpenVPN and a static key, and I&#8217;ll write a post about it because using a static key is a good way to:</p>
<ol>
<li>avoiding complexity of a full-featured public-key infrastructure</li>
<li>getting fully working vpn in a matter of minutes</li>
<li>getting an insight of how openvpn works by setting up something you can start playing with soon.</li>
</ol>
<p>Of course, using a point-to-point, secret-key-based vpn setup is not the best way to go, and I&#8217;ll go further on studying its setup.</p>
<p>Thank god I also have good friends which helped me better understand how iptables work, and that is helping me a lot with network configuration.</p>
<p>Bye!</p>