Re: [PLUG] openvpn on fc12

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Brian Vagnoni <bvagnoni@v-system.net> wrote:

Run openvpn from the command line.

openvpn /path to config

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----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Johnson
[mailto:cjohnson19791979@gmail.com]

To: Philadelphia Linux User's
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Sent: Sun,

17 Jan 2010 21:37:21 -0500
Subject: Re: [PLUG] openvpn on fc12

> [root@cjohnson openvpn]# openvpn --mktun --dev tun0
> Sun Jan 17 21:35:35 2010 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
> Sun Jan 17 21:35:35 2010 Persist state set to: ON
>
> still no change. i'm running open vpn via the openVPN admin gui for
> fedora
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Ben Love

> <blove+plug@kylimar.com<blove%2Bplug@kylimar.com>

> > wrote:
>
> > > so add
> > >
> > > # openvpn --mktun --dev tun
> > >
> > > to the client config?
> >
> > No, you run that as root ahead of time to create a persistent tun
> > device.
> >
> > You should see something like this:
> >
> > [J:0-H:3888-L:3] # openvpn --mktun --dev tun
> > Sun Jan 17 21:18:07 2010 TUN/TAP device tun2 opened
> > Sun Jan 17 21:18:07 2010 Persist state set to: ON
> >
> > And to remove:
> >
> > [J:0-H:3889-L:3] # openvpn --rmtun --dev tun2
> > Sun Jan 17 21:18:34 2010 TUN/TAP device tun2 opened
> > Sun Jan 17 21:18:34 2010 Persist state set to: OFF
> >
> > Once you have a persistent device, you can just tell the client
> config
> > to use that specific device instead of creating a new tun device on
> the
> > fly. It's sub-optimal because you have extraneous devices floating
> > around that you may not want/need when openvpn is not running.
> >
> > -------
> >
> > How are you invoking openvpn? Are you using some sort of init.d
> script
> > with start-stop-daemon or the equivalent? Are you simply using
> openvpn
> > --config client.conf?
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > --
> > Ben Love
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