Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:45:28 +0000 From: Manas <b.manas.88@gmail.com> To: Dave B <g8kbvdave@gmail.com>,freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help/advice request please. Message-ID: <EB867E94-B658-4E58-91D2-6093888F4EB8@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <564A4CE3.9663.851BBC@g8kbvdave.googlemail.com> References: <564A4CE3.9663.851BBC@g8kbvdave.googlemail.com>
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Hello Dave, I run a few openvpn servers on FreeBSD. I use https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html as my guide. Feel free to email me directly with any questions. Thanks, Manas On November 16, 2015 4:38:43 PM EST, Dave B <g8kbvdave@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi. > >FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p3 > >Trying to figure out how to get openvpn setup, ultimately for a small >number of >traveling client machines (Linux and Windows) all owned by myself, for >my own >personal use. > >Is there any (in plain english) "how-to's" out there, that actually >work? > >In particular, in regards to creating a self-signed CA (and the other >needed) >certificates, working at the command line. > >I'm falling over with the (undocumented) various user input data >fields. >For example, it's taken me a full week, to find out that my country >code is not >UK, or 44, but GB! > >But there is no guidance as to what the other field values should (or >should >not) be. Such as region/state etc. > >Trying to follow the methods on FreeBSD Diary, but all the >directory/path's are >totally different. Have tried several other (alegedly good) how-to's >also, but >all diverge from reality in major ways at some point, loosing me in the >process. > >All seem to conflict with the OpenVPN sites instructions too, they >can't all be >right/wrong, can they? (OVPN's instructions also don't relate to >FreeBSD, >other than in name.) > >Help please? (Prety please with spots on?) > >Reply direct if you feel the need not to congest the list machinery. > >TIA > >Dave B. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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