Download PDF by Jan Just Keijser: OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition

Key Features

• Master the abilities of configuring, handling, and securing your VPN utilizing the newest OpenVPN
• Gain services in constructing IPv6 connections and comprehend PolarSSL utilizing the newest model of OpenVPN
• This ebook comprises engaging recipes approximately OpenVPN functionalities that cater to venture severe applications

Book Description

OpenVPN offers an extensible VPN framework that has been designed to ease site-specific customization, similar to delivering the potential to distribute a personalized set up package deal to consumers, and helping substitute authentication equipment through OpenVPN's plugin module interface.

This ebook provide you with many alternative recipes that will help you manage, visual display unit, and troubleshoot an OpenVPN community. you'll learn how to configure a scalable, load-balanced VPN server farm which may deal with millions of dynamic connections from incoming VPN consumers. additionally, you will familiarize yourself with the encryption, authentication, defense, extensibility, and certifications gains of OpenSSL.

You also will get an realizing of IPv6 aid and may get an illustration of the way to set up a connection through IPv64. This ebook will discover all of the complicated positive aspects of OpenVPN or even a few undocumented concepts, masking all of the universal community setups akin to point-to-point networks and multi-client TUN-style and TAP-style networks. eventually, you are going to discover ways to deal with, safe, and troubleshoot your digital inner most networks utilizing OpenVPN 2.4.

What you'll learn

• Determine the simplest form of OpenVPN setup to your networking needs
• Get to grips with the encryption, authentication, and certifications beneficial properties of OpenSSL.
• Integrate an OpenVPN server into the neighborhood IT infrastructure with the scripting positive aspects of OpenVPN
• Ease the mixing of home windows consumers into the VPN utilizing Windows-specific client-side configuration
• Understand the authentication plugins for PAM and LDAP
• Get to grasp the adaptation among TUN-style and TAP-style networks and while to exploit what
• Troubleshoot your VPN setup
• Establish a connection through IPv6 besides demonstrations

About the Author

Jan simply Keijser is an open resource specialist from Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has quite a lot of adventure in IT, starting from supplying person help, procedure management, and platforms programming to community programming. He has labored for varied IT businesses for the reason that 1989. He used to be an energetic USENET contributor within the early Nineties and has been operating in general on Unix/Linux systems because 1995.

Currently, he's hired as a senior medical programmer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at Nikhef, the institute for subatomic physics from the Dutch starting place for basic study on subject (FOM). He works on multi-core and many-core computing structures and grid computing in addition to smartcard functions. His open resource pursuits contain all kinds of digital inner most networking, together with IPSec, PPTP, and, after all, OpenVPN. In 2004, he stumbled on OpenVPN and has been utilizing it ever since.

His first ebook was once OpenVPN 2 Cookbook through Packt Publishing in 2011, by means of learning OpenVPN, additionally by means of Packt Publishing, in 2015.

Table of Contents

1. Point-to-Point Networks
2. Client-server IP-only Networks
3. Client-server Ethernet-style Networks
4. PKI, certificate, and OpenSSL
5. Scripting and Plugins
6. Troubleshooting OpenVPN - Configurations
7. Troubleshooting OpenVPN - Routing
8. Performance Tuning
9. OS Integration
10. Advanced Configuration