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[Openvpn-users] Can a host be both a server and a client?


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] Can a host be both a server and a client?
  • From: Christoph Haas <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:52:17 +0200

Evening,

as I'm more used to IPSEC than OpenVPN I'm not completely familiar with the 
differences of client and server roles in OpenVPN. In IPSEC all peers are 
equal. So can a host be both a server and a client when using OpenVPN?

Example:

Our company runs an OpenVPN server so employees can connect and work from 
home. They are the server. I am the client.

Not I have friends who want to access my computer securely. So I'll 
probably be the server and they are the clients now.

Do I need to set up a second instance? Like having /etc/openvpn/server.conf 
and /etc/openvpn/client.conf (Debian's init.d script seems to start an 
instance for every *.conf file found there)?

Regards
 Christoph
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