10 March 2006 | 22,156 views

SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part IV

4. Brief How-to …. Creating Multiple clients to Single site tunnels. Example of using PKI to create a client-to-site VPN: For a road warrior or roaming/multiple user scenario, static keys based VPNs don’t scale well. You will need to implement a PKI if you have Hub and Spoke architecture of VPN. From the OpenVPN.net website: [...]

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09 March 2006 | 20,704 views

SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part III

3. Brief How-to ….. OpenVPN and Site-to-Site Tunnels. OpenVPN can be implemented either Site-to-site or client-server model. I will take example configurations of both models. If you want to implement site-to-site configuration, the best way is to use static-keys instead of PKI. Using static keys, you can have your VPN tunnel up and running in [...]

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08 March 2006 | 15,764 views

SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part II

2. Why OpenVPN Here, in this article, I will lay down the emphasis on one important Open-Source SSL VPN software written by James Yonan and contributed by several others, which proposes security without the inherent complexity of IPsec AND using a trusted design of client component and VPN server. Usually VPNs require end points which [...]

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07 March 2006 | 26,082 views

SSL VPNs and Using OpenVPN

Requirement: To connect to a VPN server in a different country. Situation: A country which has proxies at every gateway. Issues: VPN based on IPSec is fussy when it comes across networks which are NAT’ted/ proxied. The Security Parameters Indexes don’t match and clients do not get connected. Objective: To connect VPN server in a [...]

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09 February 2006 | 18,919 views

Get the ball rollin’

Hi…. It is a nice idea. I hope we all can put up some stuff, something that we are interested in and something that will get our grey cells working. Maybe someday …. just maybe…this will evolve into an idea….a killer app!

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