There should be a status log you can look at to show you, mine is, for examle: cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log EDIT: As an alternative, adding the flag –management IP port [pw-file] or adding that same directive to your server.conf, for example: management localhost 7505 This would allow you to telnet to that port and offer you … Read more
I have all of the scenarios setup in my environment. (openvpn site-site, road warriors; cisco ipsec site-site, remote users) By far the openvpn is faster. The openvpn software is less overhead on the remote users. The openvpn is/can be setup on port 80 with tcp so that it passes at places that have limited free … Read more
if it’s ok to create vpn on layer 3 (one more hop between subnets) – go for tun. if you need to bridge two ethernet segments in two different locations – then use tap. in such setup you can have computers in the same ip subnet (eg 10.0.0.0/24) on both ends of vpn, and they’ll … Read more
Looks like this is a simple matter of sudo. sudo openvpn client.ovpn worked a treat.