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OpenVPN is a free and open source software SSL VPN solution. It allows secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections with routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities.

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How does Name Resolution actually work in the latest version of macOS?

Current version: macOS Sierra 10.12.3 I administer an OpenVPN server for my company. I have set the following: # Send client instructions to use our internal DNS push "dhcp-option DNS 172.31.5.39" ...
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How to selectively bypass TUN OpenVPN client for VNC service?

I have a Mac Mini connected to internet via an ASUS router running ASUS's modified WRT firmware. All devices have latest software/firmware. The Mini does scheduled connections to the internet via a ...
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Iptables/Route with 2 ssid hostapd and subnets and openvpn setup

I'm struggling to setup iptables/routing in the correct way. Objective is: - Traffic from clients connected to wifi-KK to not use the tunnel but go via eth0 to router - Traffic from clients ...
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How to tell an instance of firefox to use eth0 instead of tun0 while OpenVPN is running and connected to a VPN server?

sometimes I need to connect to websites without passing through VPN, is it possible to open an instance of Firefox and tell it to use the plain eth0 interface instead of the tun0 ?
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Forwarding traffic on Linux virtual machine received through GRE tunnel connected over OpenVPN

I'm trying to route traffic destined for the public Internet through an OpenVPN network, where the traffic will exit the VPN through another client on the network (that happens to be a VirtualBox VM). ...
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Nginx + OpenVPN (proxy) and access.log

I currently have an Nginx server running on 444 and an OpenVPN on 443 with the port-sharing feature. Both applications run well, but the IP written into /var/log/nginx/access.log is, thereby, 127.0.0....
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OpenVPN Connect (Android): How to allow local traffic to bypass VPN

I use the OpenVPN Connect app on my Android devices to route my internet traffic through commercial VPN Service providers (Private Internet Access and IPVanish). I can access the internet through the ...
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openvpn connection without forwarding all traffic

I am trying to connect a client to a vpn network without openvpn forwarding all my traffic into the network. The point being is I want to be able to connect and communicate with all the other ...
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OpenVPN client fails to activate pushed DHCP options for DNS and DOMAIN

OpenVPN client is connecting to OpenVPN server OK. During connection, we see the options pushed contain dhcp-option of DNS 10.0.0.2 and DOMAIN prd1.o2: Sun Aug 2 17:31:06 2015 PUSH: Received ...
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Routing traffic around VPN

I recently setup a OpenVPN client on my HTPC, however once I connected to the VPN server I was no longer able to remotely SSH or connect to the other servers I had running on the HTPC. I followed ...
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After disconnecting my vpn, why do I have to reset my network adapter to revisit certain sites?

If I create an encrypted connection to my VPN host (via openVPN) and tunnel all internet traffic through it everything seems to work fine (i.e. Websites think my ip is that of the remote server). ...
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How can I route all traffic coming in to an OpenVPN server through an Apache proxy on the same machine?

I was following the instructions here to set up mod_pagespeed as a proxy for my phone. As the security note suggested, I set up OpenVPN and got that much working on my phone, but OpenVPN isn't letting ...
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iptables config blocks OpenVPN with udp error "Operation not permitted (code=1)

With iptables cleaned out using the following, my OpenVPN client fires right up with no errors: iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -F As soon ...
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Using Raspberry PI as OpenVPN router for Asterisk

So, I've been banging my head with this for quite some time. I have the following configuration: OpenVPN server, IP 1.2.3.1 Asterisk server, connected to OpenVPN server, IP 1.2.3.3 Raspberry PI, ...
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Can I access multiple OpenVPN connections, each accessed through socks proxy?

I have a piece of software, I'll call it "FooSoft" here, which needs to connect to multiple devices on networks protected by a variety of third party VPNs. Each VPN is independent and I have ...
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