Bas Work
Hi,
We use OpenVPN on FreeBSD to monitor remote equipment.
We use key and cert files for the OpenVPN connections.
We have OpenVPN connections on the inside and outside of our Internet firewall.
- Connections are made from the inside network (with NAT) to our outside tunnels.
- Also connections from the outside are accessing our inside network (limited by FreeBSD firewall).
We are considering OpenVPN AS (OAS_2.6.1.ova) on a VMserver ESX to replace our FreeBSD with OpenVPN server.
One of the reasons to consider this is the maintenance on FreeBSD. We hope that OpenVPN AS is easier on the maintenance side.
We created some tools to monitor the OpenVPN tunnels, we expect that this is included in the OpenVPN AS.
Is this going to work?
luckman212
OpenVPN AS is not a full "distro". It runs on top of a standard operating system (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, etc). So you still have to "maintain" that. But it is quite simple to spin up a new one and simply restore from a backup. I've done this and it takes <10 minutes.
Bas Work
Ok, thanks for your reply.
I'm just going to try.
