Revision as of 15:20, 17 November 2017

1 Introduction

• OpenVPN is an open-source software application that implements VPN based on SSL. This module can setup an OpenVPN server in WFilter NG Firewall.
• Clients need to have the correct CA certificate and valid username/password to access the VPN service.

2 Server Settings

• Users: only "local users" with "VPN" priviledge have VPN access.
• Protocol and port: connection protocol and port, shall be consistent with the client settings.
• Client Subnet: WFilter's openVPN works in "subnet" mode. In this mode, OpenVPN will setup a new subnet, which can not same as existing LAN subnets.
• Local Subnet: The subnets will be pushed to clients routing table, so client will access subnet via the VPN tunnel. For example: route 192.168.126.0 255.255.255.0

• Master CA certificate: the CA certificate which shall be copied into openVPN client directory, you can click "Replace" to generate a new certificate.

3 OpenVPN Clients

3.1 Windows Clients

• Download and install the offical openvpn client: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html
• Download openvpn certificate in WFilter NG Firewall, copy it to openvpn's config directoy with name "ca.crt".
• In config directory of openvpn, create a new text file named "myvpn.ovpn", with below content:

client
dev tun
proto udp                   #Connection protocol, same as the server settings.
remote 192.168.1.246 1194   #Server IP(domain) and port
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt                   #ca.crt filename, same directory with the myvpn.ovpn
verb 3
auth-user-pass

• Now you can launch "OpenVPN GUI" with administrator privilege, input correct username and password to access VPN.