7 Setting up OpenVPN clients

Up to this point, we have set up an OpenVPN server. It serves as the hub to connect OpenVPN clients. In a “normal” VPN setting, the clients will connect from remote interfaces. However, in the case of virtual machines, we will set up the clients on the same machine.

The following steps will set up one OpenVPN client that is ready to be used by a VM.

 7.1 Set up a new TUN/TAP interface
 7.2 Set up the client configuration file
 7.3 Start up the OpenVPN client
 7.4 Automatically starting up the OpenVPN client
 7.5 Adding one additional client