Hosting an OpenVPN Server

[maschwar77]

Hello:

I have two customers who want me to host a VPN service for them. What is the best way to go about this? Do I try to run two separate server instances? Can I use the client configurations feature to setup two separate hosted VPNs without separate server instances? How do I avoid routing between my two customers? Obviously, I want each customer's LAN traffic to remain separate. I have done some googling but could not find any examples of a setup. Any insight that the community can provide would be helpful.

Thank you,
Matt

[maschwar77]

Sorry to respond to my own post but maybe what I want to do is a Client-to-Client configuration with two separate networks? Thank you again.

[janjust]

you host the openvpn server; both customers connect to your openvpn server; using the appropriate routing rules you can forward traffic from client LAN to client LAN.

you have to ask yourself first, however, what kind of traffic should flow between the two customer's LANs. Is this clearly defined? It is vital to know these kinds of things before being able to design a VPN solution for them.

[maschwar77]

Thank you for the reply and I should have provided more details about desired topology. I only need IP traffic, I don't need to pass non-IP traffic or do any OSPF or anything of that nature. Basically, I want to host a remote access VPN with OpenVPN for two of my customers. So, I need a tunnel connection from the customer's LAN to my server and the remote employees will connect to my server and route back to the LAN. Does this help out any? I just want to know what you think the best way to achieve this is. Thanks