Openvpn: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

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Packt Publishing Ltd, May 11, 2006 - Computers - 270 pages
Learn how to build secure VPNs using this powerful Open Source application.
 

Contents

Preface
1
VPNVirtual Private Network
5
VPN Security
17
OpenVPN
27
Installing OpenVPN
39
Configuring an OpenVPN ServerThe First Tunnel
77
Setting Up OpenVPN with X509 Certificates
109
The Command openvpn and its Configuration File
127
Securing OpenVPN Tunnels and Servers
155
Advanced Certificate Management
187
Advanced OpenVPN Configuration
209
Troubleshooting and Monitoring
227
Internet Resources
241
Index
251
Copyright

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Page 23 - Unable to verify the identity of localhost as a trusted site. Possible reasons for this error: - Your browser does not recognize the Certificate Authority that issued the site's certificate. - The site's certificate is incomplete due to a server misconfiguration.

About the author (2006)

Markus Feilner is a Linux professional from Regensburg, Germany, and has been working with open-source software since the mid 1990s. His first contact with UNIX was a SUN cluster and SPARC workstations at Regensburg University (during his studies of geography). Since the year 2000, he has published several documents used in Linux training all over Germany. In 2001, he founded his own Linux consulting and training company, Feilner IT. He was working as a trainer, consultant, and systems engineer at Millenux, Munich, where he focused on groupware, collaboration, and virtualization with Linux-based systems and networks. Since 2007, he is an editor at the German Linux-Magazine, where he is writing about Open-Source-Software for both printed and online magazines, including the Linux Technical Review and the Linux Magazine International www.linux-magazine.com. He regularly holds speeches and lectures at conferences in Germany. He is interested in anything about geography, traveling, photography, philosophy (especially that of open-source software), global politics, soccer and literature, but always has too little time for these hobbies. Markus Feilner supports Linux4afrika - a project bringing Linux computers into African schools. For more information please visit www.linux4afrika.de!

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