From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 16:37:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB232F2B for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x22c.google.com (mail-wg0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45EB8DA9 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id m15so804307wgh.27 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:37:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:date:mime-version:subject:message-id:priority:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-description; bh=nvilklVC0x2dMxWUnto46SbrHVlfCIAr0jcXBxT3RJo=; b=dC0rvWvrKXmUcmhrmFsLxa7721qCxyyvDiwfE9e9Kseqw+Hzy/d0vwzB8dn/YjKkn/ M/F32EPVtfu9mxR9zW0VfuS4YJqYPWyr7fnPXEkdKjpzbiehG6K9snQXUvQurnkOPWTO yTvORHTNFNGGwpgbHTdVmg0lMdkEsJUeiUfKB8SyzrKiNDTm8w4hImFzAZ62Tx7xU3Vo fU1QuefOMWFS4ZioSkF114I9Kh9qUgMw7+sWEX1oEyvW4eElXQkdXJe1eY/x+r0yJxtp dfjOUiYPsTJckyCWUVB48u712VGwZdaJ8yUtxaXA6rNXH+3SaMNv5teuurIxhll4lT6L N7hQ== X-Received: by 10.194.91.232 with SMTP id ch8mr35022172wjb.13.1395333434661; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.16.70] ([217.41.35.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ga10sm6268827wjb.23.2014.03.20.09.37.13 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:37:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave B To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:37:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: VPN choices? (OVPN) Message-ID: <532B192C.12964.1D3A617@g8kbvdave.gmail.com> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.62) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:37:16 -0000 Hi again. Well, I'm completely confused now. I've tried setting up a test server on a Vbox VM, in any one of several ways, as documented in various place on t'interweb. Some are better to understand than others, but none seem to cover all that is needed in detail, resulting in conflicts and contradictions when I try to fill the gaps in based on what others did, and of course lack of functionality. No doubt the individual authors each made it work for themselves, but have all left out little (but vitaly important) details. All unintentional no doubt, but show stoppers none the less for us meer mortals So, all fail at some point, due to undocumented (assumed) items that are missing from the write up. Like some .conf.default files, that actually need to be renamed or coppied to just .conf type filenames. The OVPN site itself seems to have a lot of good info, but you end up bouncing all over the place, loosing the plot in the process, I think at one point I had over 30 open web pages, just on the OVPN site! Not helped by my lack of attention span and other diversions!... There also seems to be, to my eyes anyway, a complete lack of standardisation regarding the locations of the various configuration files, and some of the contents or the format of them therin, as used by the various writeup authors. So, does anyone know of, or have a "Proven" workflow document that covers ALL that's needed, to get a OVPN server (Bridging mode, I need UDP traffic to flow) working on FBSD9.2, and traveling client on Win7? Single server, single client, fixed pre-shared key, no PFS needed. The only thing I'm now good at, is cloning instances of the OS in VBox! I'm using FreeBSD9.2 (no "ports" collection, to keep the virtual disk size down) but "pkg_add -r xxxx" seems to work OK. Hosted at present on a Win7 pro (64bit) host. The intended final server is a regular i386 box running FBSD9.2, the client will be the Win7 Pro box as above. I'm glad I'm not trying this on real hardware, else I'd be reloading the OS every 10 minutes. Cheers. Dave B.