OpenVPN Jumpstart

Yesterday I badly needed to establish VPN connection between two computers, nothing extraordinary, one server and one client. In order to accomplish this quite trivial task I created a key:

openvpn --genkey --secret whatever.key

and two configuration files for the server(192.168.1.1):

dev tun

ifconfig 10.0.0.1 10.0.02

secret whatever.key

and the client(192.168.1.2) respectively:

remote 192.168.1.1

dev tun

ifconfig 10.0.0.2 10.0.01

secret whatever.key

Then I just ran:

openvpn --config server.conf

openvpn --config client.conf

and surprisingly it worked :)

By the way, if you have some kinda firewall or something you might need to consider opening port 1194.