Talk:SoCVPN
From Linux & Open Source @ NUS
Hi, I added a section on installation. I guess ssl is a dependency. So is it openssl or libssl? Any elegant way of documenting it? I'm also aware that the kernel module tun is needed to be dynamically allocated to OpenVPN. Could someone document that cos I'm not too elegant about that?
Btw, maybe we shld ask SoC NOC to let this page through SoC network without SoCVPN, since it is the guru page for SoCVPN(Linux). Alternative is to ask SoC NOC to update their page.
- Elfgoh 00:13, 20 December 2006 (SGT)
OpenVpn Installation
For those who would like to try out openvpn in other distribution without PEAP, LEAP and/or openvpn:
You may need the following 3 to be installed:
lzo
openssl
pam
These 3 dependencies are listed in http://openvpn.net/howto.html#install
Download lzo from http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo
Download openssl from http://www.openssl.org
Download pam from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam
Before installing the above dependencies,
do a ./configure from the extracted openvpn tar file.
Missing dependencies are reported if there is any. If you encounter errors like missing Crypto Header or Crypto Library, do a
./configure --with-ssl-headers=DIR1 --with-ssl-lib=DIR2
where DIR1 is the location of the ssl include directory and DIR2 is the location of the ssl library directory
in general, to install each of the above, you need to run 3 commands
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
I manage to install the openvpn into PCLinuxOS an linux liveCD. I think it should work for most distribution.
