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Building a VPN server with OpenVPN

Building a VPN server with OpenVPN - Linux Tutorial

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Building a VPN server with OpenVPN

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- The internet isn't a trustworthy network, but you can secure your communications with a VPN. So stay tuned to learn about OpenVPN. - [Speaker] You are watching ITPro TV. (upbeat music) (graphics whoosh) - Welcome back. I'm here with Don for more LPIC-2. Today we're going to talk about building a VPN server using OpenVPN. So can you give us an introduction to what we'll be learning in this episode? - Sure. We're going to learn a little bit about what OpenVPN is because this might be your first exposure to it. Then we're going to see how to get it installed on a system to be able to build up an OpenVPN server. So by the end of the episode, we'll have some basic VPN infrastructure set up on a Linux server. - So what do we need to know about the OpenVPN project? - All right, well, like the name implies, it's an open source project to create a virtual private network or VPN service. In the old days, if you wanted a VPN, you had to go to vendors like Cisco or Juniper or somebody like that…

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