How to open openvpn on ubuntu

**Berth** · 16-09-2009

I had installed ubuntu on my system. I had also install openVPN through Synaptic on my system. I'm not able to open openVPN on my pc. So, can any body tell me that how to open openvpn on ubuntu? Anyone knows about it? Kindly provide me the correct solution for doing so. Would appreciate if any body provides me the correct solution for the above problem.

**Milton.J** · 16-09-2009

OpenVPN is a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solution provided in the Ubuntu Repositories. It is flexible, easy-to-use, reliable and secure. First, be aware this setup makes a few assumptions. First, no bridging of networks is done which means no broadcast traffic and no multicast.

**Spyrus** · 16-09-2009

For that you need to OpenVPN, on your pc, that you had installed by using the following command:-

sudo apt-get install openvpn bridge-utils

Setting up a bridged VPN solution is not hard. However, it does require that you understand how to use the Linux shell and the Linux networking stack.

**Snake08** · 16-09-2009

The first thing you should do when installing OpenVPN is to read some of the documentation on the OpenVPN web-site. The configuration file is pretty straight forward as you set it up almost like the server.conf file. This seems like a simple step to skip but if you do not know exactly how OpenVPN works then you risk opening your internal network to security problems. You can create this using notepad in windows or use VI again. Now that you have taken some time to understand OpenVPN and Bridges we can begin to implement these technologies into a server on your local network.