OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 OpenVPN Technologies, Inc. This program is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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To get the latest release of OpenVPN, go to:
https://openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html
To Build and Install,
tar -zxf openvpn-<version>.tar.gz
cd openvpn-<version>
./configure
make
make install
or see the file INSTALL for more info.
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For detailed information on OpenVPN, including examples, see the man page
http://openvpn.net/man.html
For a sample VPN configuration, see
http://openvpn.net/howto.html
To report an issue, see
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/report
For a description of OpenVPN's underlying protocol,
see the file ssl.h included in the source distribution.
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Other Files & Directories:
* configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure
script and makefile.
* sample/sample-scripts/verify-cn
A sample perl script which can be used with OpenVPN's
--tls-verify option to provide a customized authentication
test on embedded X509 certificate fields.
* sample/sample-keys/
Sample RSA keys and certificates. DON'T USE THESE FILES
FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE.
* sample/sample-config-files/
A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from
the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html
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Note that easy-rsa and tap-windows are now maintained in their own subprojects.
Their source code is available here:
https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa
https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows
The old cross-compilation environment (domake-win) and the Python-based
buildsystem have been replaced with openvpn-build:
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build
See the INSTALL file for usage information.