Patch for OpenVPN

Troy Davis gpf at dslinux.in-berlin.de
Thu Oct 11 15:29:57 CEST 2007


Quoting Troy Davis <gpf at dslinux.in-berlin.de>:

> Quoting Ewan Meadows <ewan.meadows at gmail.com>:
>
> > Here's a patch to enable the OpenVPN client in the DLDI builds.  It's
> > handy for securing things like telnet.  I've only used it in a simple
> > configuration and it works fine.  Included in the patch is a init
> > script for /etc/rc.d, an entry in rc.common to enable on boot and a
> > Makefile that triggers a configure script.  It also enables the use of
> > /dev/tun and creates a directory /var/log.  Hopefully I'll be able to
> > get some kind of small syslogd running at some point.
> >
> > Download the v2.0.9 source from
> > http://openvpn.net/download.html#stable and extract to
> > user/openvpn/src, like the user/mc directory.
> >
> > (I promise I'll learn svn next week)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
>
> Commited r1983, thanks for the patch.
>
>
> Troy(GPF)
>
> <subliminal>Learn SVN</subliminal> :)
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oops your diff was missing changes for user/Makefile so it wasn't building :)

Also how do I have to configure the /etc/openvpn.conf ?

I copied the openvpn.conf.example to openvpn.conf but I just get an error
message when it tries to start, not sure what I need to change in it.

Thanks,
Troy(GPF)



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