[Astlinux-users] OpenVPN Questions

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

Hey everyone,

  OpenVPN - looks very cool, I'm glad that AstLinux has it.

  I have a problem that looks like it could be solved with the
appropriate VPN.  OpenVPN looks like it can probably do it for me.

  Here is what I need to do:

  Many boxes are behind NAT.  Each box has several services that need
to be accessed by a few remote systems that all all on the same
network (probably a dedicated VLAN) in a datacenter.  By many boxes I
mean hundreds, thousands, etc.  Here is what I think I need:

- openvpn on each box with public key authentication (I don't want to
have to deal with passwords)

- openvpn "concentrator" doing routing/firewalling/etc in the datacenter

  The "kick" is I need the openvpn concentrator to hand out unique IP
addresses that are rout able (at least within my VLAN in the
datacenter - maybe by proxyarp) to each client as it connects.
Multiple machines on that VLAN (not running openvpn) must be able to
access the remote IP addresses without any extra software or
configuration.

  Can openvpn do this?  What extra rc.conf values will I need?  Thanks!

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Kristian Kielhofner