From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 19:47:51 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E3216A41A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from crackmonkey.us (crackmonkey.us [70.58.166.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8400D13C46A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 33) by crackmonkey.us with local; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:47:45 -0600 id 001BC4F3.4703F1E1.000054B8 To: yanicher@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 172.133.18.169 (auth. user fatman@localhost) by mail.crackmonkey.us with HTTP; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:47:45 +0000 X-Mailer: IlohaMail/0.8.14 (On: mail.crackmonkey.us) Message-ID: <46TAOkal.1191440865.9274140.fatman@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: From: fatman@crackmonkey.us Bounce-To: Errors-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:47:45 -0600 Cc: Subject: Re: any body has a tutorial of installing the openvpn on current versions of freebsd ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:47:51 -0000 On 2/10/2007, "Yong" wrote: >sorry, I meant > >install openvpn in bridged mode - that will imply creating some >devices, creating the config files that will permit to connect a test >user >something or somebody that has done it from point to point - till the >moment that it is stated and user has connected. > >thanks Hi Yong, I did have this sort of working [I'm not convinced I had it 100% right, though my friend claimed he was able to join my network and browse my NFS shares] and then my server blew out a hard disk. And me without a backup. Typical. I don't think there are any decent instructions out there, unfortunately. It's too darn complicated. That security fella Steve Gibson did say he was going to write a good clear tutorial, but that was a year ago and it has yet to materialise. I guess he's having as much trouble with it as anyone. I think the reason it's so tricky is because it's hard to test from wherever you are. Most people have just one internet connection. I can only advise doing what I did: read the online manual and try random configurations until it works. :( Oh, don't know how much help this is, but I recall you have to do "ifconfig bridge0 create" and then "ifconfig bridge0 addm eth0 addm tun0" as well as setting up the VPN server and remembering to kldload the if_bridge module. Something like that at least. Regards, Adam J Richardson