![]() OpenVPN is an open-source, cross-platform, virtual private networking (VPN) application. In this article, we’ll set up the Raspberry Pi to act as an OpenVPN server, allowing you to securely access your home network from anywhere. Now that the whole house is humming along, sharing files, downloading things, and backing everyone up, you might be wondering if there’s anything left that the Raspberry can do for you. It makes me wish there were similar scripts for the other aspects of running a Raspberry Pi Home Server. Ten minutes later, most of which was eaten up by generating Diffie-Hellman keys, I had new ovpn files for my various devices, and everything just worked. Rather than go through all the steps of my own post, I thought I’d give PiVPN a shot at it. curl -L | bashĪfter recently having my cable modem upgraded (and finding that it out-performed my own wireless router), I was having some trouble getting my VPN working again. ![]() That means that everything you’re about to read can be condensed down to a single command. It’s basically everything in this article, completely automated. If, however, you’re just looking for the fastest way to set up a home VPN on a Raspberry Pi, then you should check out PiVPN. I encourage you to do so just to gain an understanding of what’s going on. Update: If you want to know what’s going on under the covers, or want tighter control over your exact configuration, then by all means, read this post in its entirety. Reading the instructions is one thing, but watching it done demystifies the whole process. If you have a Pluralsight subscription, please consider watching it. Self-Promotion: I have recorded this series as a screencast for Pluralsight: Please refer to the series Introduction for a list of all the different posts in the series. ![]() If you’ve started from something other than a non-NOOBS Raspbian image, then you’ll probably need to adjust for that. If you are just trying to add one thing to an existing system that was not built following this series, then I cannot promise that these instructions will work for you, although they probably will.
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