= OpenVPN on CentOS 6 =

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

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== Install the client ==

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

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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.

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sudo yum install openvpn
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== Set up the connection ==

'''3)''' Unzip the file named ''USERNAME_linux.zip''.

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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.

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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.