Help/advice request please.

[Manas]

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 at 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.
>
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