OpenVPN on CentOS 6

This howto was prepared and tested on CentOS 6 64 bit.

Install the client

1) Make sure that you add the EPEL repositories to your yum configuration. Here is how you can add those.

curl -O http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm

2) Install OpenVPN.

sudo yum install openvpn

Set up the connection

3) Unzip the file named USERNAME_linux.zip.

mkdir ~/openvpn
cd ~/openvpn/
unzip /path/to/your/file/USERNAME_linux.zip

4) Start the connection by running the script startVPN.sh. Make sure you run it as root so it can setup the routing table.

sudo ~/openvpn/startVPN.sh

5) If you want to terminate the connection press Ctrl+C in the command line window where your connection is running.