Introduction

Here we will configure openvpn client the following way:

• we will use the daemon(the init script)
• we will get an ip from the openvpn server and not from a dhcp server

run the following command:

• sudo apt-get install openvpn resolvconf

create the /etc/openvpn/client.conf with the following config

• remote 192.168.1.1
  client
  dev tap
  nobind
  tls-client
  ca /etc/openvpn/ca.crt
  cert /etc/openvpn/ubu.crt
  key /etc/openvpn/ubu.key
  pull
  verb 4
  remote-cert-tls server
  #auth-user-pass
  redirect-gateway
  #lladdr 00:FF:00:00:00:24
  #route-delay 5
  up "/etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf"
  down "/etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf"
  

replace 192.168.1.1 by your server's ip address, and replace ubu.crt,ubu.key and ca.crt by your own certificates

run the openvpn server to try:

• /etc/init.d/openvpn start

then add it to the services that will be started at startup if you want:

• update-rc.d foobar defaults

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