- 400 pages
- English
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OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition
About This Book
Discover over 90 practical and exciting recipes that leverage the power of OpenVPN 2.4 to help you obtain a reliable and secure VPNAbout This Bookā¢ Master the skills of configuring, managing, and securing your VPN using the latest OpenVPNā¢ Gain expertise in establishing IPv6 connections and understand PolarSSL using the latest version of OpenVPNā¢ This book contains enticing recipes about OpenVPN functionalities that cater to mission critical applicationsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for system administrators who have a basic knowledge of OpenVPN and are eagerly waiting to build, secure, and manage VPNs using the latest version. This book assumes some prior knowledge of TCP/IP networking and OpenVPN and you must have network administration skills to get the most out of this book.What You Will Learnā¢ Determine the best type of OpenVPN setup for your networking needsā¢ Get to grips with the encryption, authentication, and certifications features of OpenSSL.ā¢ Integrate an OpenVPN server into the local IT infrastructure with the scripting features of OpenVPNā¢ Ease the integration of Windows clients into the VPN using Windows-specific client-side configurationā¢ Understand the authentication plugins for PAM and LDAPā¢ Get to know the difference between TUN-style and TAP-style networks and when to use whatā¢ Troubleshoot your VPN setupā¢ Establish a connection via IPv6 along with demonstrationsIn DetailOpenVPN provides an extensible VPN framework that has been designed to ease site-specific customization, such as providing the capability to distribute a customized installation package to clients, and supporting alternative authentication methods via OpenVPN's plugin module interface.This book provides you with many different recipes to help you set up, monitor, and troubleshoot an OpenVPN network. You will learn to configure a scalable, load-balanced VPN server farm that can handle thousands of dynamic connections from incoming VPN clients. You will also get to grips with the encryption, authentication, security, extensibility, and certifications features of OpenSSL.You will also get an understanding of IPv6 support and will get a demonstration of how to establish a connection via IPv64. This book will explore all the advanced features of OpenVPN and even some undocumented options, covering all the common network setups such as point-to-point networks and multi-client TUN-style and TAP-style networks. Finally, you will learn to manage, secure, and troubleshoot your virtual private networks using OpenVPN 2.4.Style and approachThis practical, recipe-based book covers the core functionalities of OpenVPN ending with troubleshooting, performance tuning and making the readers inquisitive about the advanced features.
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OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition
OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition
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Author Jan Just Keijser | Copy Editor Pranjali Chury |
Reviewer Ralf Hildebrandt | Project Coordinator Izzat Contractor |
Commissioning Editor Pratik Shah | Proofreader Safis Editing |
Acquisition Editor Rahul Nair | Indexer Tejal Soni |
Content Development Editor Zeeyan Pinheiro | Production Coordinator Melwyn D'sa |
Technical Editor Vivek Pala |
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- OpenVPN Cookbook - Second Edition