pcharris6
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the entire OpenVPN scene, but I've encountered an issue that OpenVPN may help me to solve. I have 3 remote sites that I'd like to connect to a central webserver such that all of the sites are routable to and from the webserver. These sites don't need to be able to route to each other, just the webserver.
Now, I have access to the remote sites, but the webserver is hosted. So the question is, what's the best way to do this? I've been looking into getting a VPN capable router for each of the remote sites, but is this even necesary? Can I upgrade the firmware on less beefy (and expensive) routers and put OpenVPN on these routers? Does OpenVPN even run on a router, or does it need to run on a computer connected to a router? I'm assuming I also need to run OpenVPN on the webserver?
Thanks for your help. I apologize if any of my questions are obvious, but I have read through a lot of the documents and forum posts and mostly ended up more confused.
Mimiko
If you whant access from this sites only to webserver, then the easiest way is to install OpenVPN server on the webserver itself.
Also, there are routers based in *nix systems, like dd-wrt, which support OpenVPN.
genesis777
I think this question was already answered again and again. On the other hand, is this question part of openvpn application? If so, this topic must be on the manpage.
pcharris6
hey Genesis,
Thanks for letting me know it's been answered elsewhere, i'll have a look for it, I'm just having a hard time finding any information specifically so if you know of any specific links it would be appreciated. Mostly I want to know how the set up would work, first reply said that it would just be set up on the webserver, but some kind of client needs to be set up at each site, correct? if I want this always on, then I need either a computer always running this client or a router completing the VPN connection, correct? I have a lot of devices at each site that require access to the web server and running a client on each of them is not possible.
Thanks, and sorry if these questions have been answered, I'm usually pretty reluctant to post to a forum unless I can't find the info.
genesis777
basically you want a central server wherein you only need to encode the client's records once but can be used all many other servers on your network.
as I have said, the question has been answered already. we have a search function provided here in the forum, so use it.
moreover, I dont think that the moderators will provide your the script for the answer because I believe the high moderators will answer you that it is NOT an openvpn question.
