IPCop and OpenVPN
Some ages ago I bookmarked a how-to on setting up
OpenVPN on IPcop. Basically it shows you how to install
ZERINA
OpenVPN addon for
IPCop
and then use the
OpenVPN GUI for
Windows to connect your Windows system to your new VPN. I'm sure that a
Linux client exists but I really didn't look into that because I'm planning on
trying this out with my work laptop which, unfortunately, I'm relegated to using
Windows on. Perhaps I'll setup a dual boot one day, but I don't have time for
that just now.
The how-to made the setup super easy except for one small problem I ran into.
Using the default encryption method for the tunnel I kept getting TLS timeout
errors when trying to connect. I changed the default encryption method to one
of the AES ones and it started working.
I don't know if I'm going to stick with this VPN solution long term. Up until
now I've just tunneled ports through my ssh session as needed to access
resources on my network or used scp to transfer files so I'm not sure what
advantages I will see but time will tell.