
OpenVPN Cookbook
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With the topology subnet
feature that OpenVPN offers, it becomes feasible to hand out public IP addresses to connecting clients. For this recipe, we will show how such a setup can be realized. We will re-use a technique from the Proxy-ARP recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks, to make the VPN clients appear as if they are a part of the remote network. If a dedicated IP address block is available for the VPN clients, then this is not required. The advantage of using the proxy-arp
method is that it allows us to use only part of an expensive public IP address block.
For this recipe, the server computer was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.12. The client computer was running Windows 7 64 bit and OpenVPN 2.3.11. Keep the client configuration file, basic-udp-client.ovpn
, from the Using an ifconfig-pool block recipe from Chapter 2, Client-Server IP-Only Networks.
To test this recipe, a public IP address block...
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