Gentoo as a OpenVPN Client by Brendan Horan

You guessed this was coming...

Its quite simple to set up Gentoo as an OpenVPN client. Just emege the package :

# emerge-av net-misc/openvpn

Now we need to create a config file and a place to store the keys. All config files (.conf) for your VPN connections should live under "/etc/openvpn" This is the config file for the previous article (you can find the sample configs on the server)

Change into the openvpn dir and create the sserver1.conf file :

# cd /etc/openvpn
# vim server1.conf

The contents of my server1.conf :

client
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
dev tun
proto udp
remote server1 1194
resolv-retry infinite
persist-keypersist-tun
ca /etc/openvpn/pki/server1/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/pki/server1/client.crt
key /etc/openvpn/pki/server1/client.key
ns-cert-type server
verb 3
ping 10
ping-restart 60
tun-mtu 1500
mssfix 1400

Copy you client.key, client.crt and ca.crt into the "/etc/openvpn/pki/server1" directory. You can set this to any directory the above makes sense to me.

Now you need to create a start script.

# cd /etc/init.d
# ln -s openvpn openvpn.server1

You can now start your vpn connection to server1 with :

# /etc/init.d/openvpn.server1