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Mastering OpenVPN

You're reading from Mastering OpenVPN Master building and integrating secure private networks using OpenVPN

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783553136

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

OpenVPN

Concepts

Networking

Authors (2):

Eric F Crist

Jan Just Keijser

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to OpenVPN

2. Point-to-point Mode FREE CHAPTER

3. PKIs and Certificates

4. Client/Server Mode with tun Devices

5. Advanced Deployment Scenarios in tun Mode

6. Client/Server Mode with tap Devices

7. Scripting and Plugins

8. Using OpenVPN on Mobile Devices and Home Routers

9. Troubleshooting and Tuning

10. Future Directions

Index

What you need for this book

You should have the following entities for a complete experience of reading and following Mastering OpenVPN:

A Unix, Linux, or Mac OS X system
A Windows system
A server (Windows or Linux, whichever is preferred, Linux or FreeBSD suggested)
A solid understanding (101 or 201 level) of networking (UDP and TCP over IP)

An IRC client or a web browser is also helpful. When you run into trouble or have too many questions, pop in to #openvpn on irc.freenode.net, and look for @janjust or @ecrist. We look forward to talking to you!

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Authors (2)

Jan Just Keijser

Jan Just Keijser

Jan Just Keijser is an open source professional from Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has a wide range of experience in IT, ranging from providing user support, system administration, and systems programming to network programming. He has worked for various IT companies since 1989. He was an active USENET contributor in the early 1990s and has been working mainly on Unix/Linux platforms since 1995. Currently, he is employed as a senior scientific programmer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at Nikhef, the institute for subatomic physics from the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). He works on multi-core and many-core computing systems and grid computing as well as smartcard applications. His open source interests include all types of virtual private networking, including IPSec, PPTP, and, of course, OpenVPN. In 2004, he discovered OpenVPN and has been using it ever since. His first book was OpenVPN 2 Cookbook by Packt Publishing in 2011, followed by Mastering OpenVPN, also by Packt Publishing, in 2015.

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Eric F Crist

Eric F Crist

Eric F Crist hails from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and he works as a product and systems engineer for Abbott. He has a relatively wide range of professional and life experience starting from physical security and access control as a low-voltage technician into software development, system administration, and software development. Eric has been a core member of the OpenVPN community since 2008 and helps manage the open source online resources. He also wrote ssl-admin, and he is a lead for Easy-RSA, both of which help manage Certificate Authorities and chains. Eric collaborated with Jan Just Keisjer for the book, Mastering OpenVPN, in 2015, also for Packt.

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