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Christoph Haas wrote: > 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. Mhhhh often one side just adds the connection and waits for the other side to initiate it. So can a host be both a server and a client when using OpenVPN? Sure, just use 2 configs. > > 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)? Yep. Unless you work all for the same company and want to do client-to-client. cheers Erich ______________________ OpenVPN mailing lists https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users Warning: require_once(../../../archive_common.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/openvpn/domains/openvpn.net/public_html/archive/openvpn-users/2006-09/msg00057.html on line 207 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../../../archive_common.php' (include_path='/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/openvpn/domains/openvpn.net/public_html/archive/openvpn-users/2006-09/msg00057.html on line 207 |