H2O
I recently bought a new month-to-month based subscription to a VPN service from a provider with a long history, keeping my up-front commitment at a minimum until I get a good feel for what to expect in service. The provider sent me a config file zipped up with some other files to be used with its VPN connections. OpenVPN is its recommended choice, which seemed like a smart choice to begin with. As this is the very first instance of my trying to make use of a VPN under these circumstances, I am not entirely sure what to expect as minimum requirements for making a connection. I installed OpenVPN on the Linux machine with which I want to make the connection from my home LAN to one of the servers. So far I have not had a successful connection, and I was hoping to "augment" my support from the service provider by doing some troubleshooting here, where, it would seem to me, I might get another set of eyes taking a look at the issue.
If this is NOT a place for such support, please let me know so that I can look elsewhere and avoid wasting anyone's time by putting out the information for review. I know some of the configurations for setting up a VPN can be rather complicated, but frankly from what I can tell, this particular case ought to be fairly simple and straightforward.
