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OpenVpnCentOs6

OpenVPN on CentOS 6

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

Contents

  1. OpenVPN on CentOS 6
    1. Install the client
    2. Set up the connection

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

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