OpenVPN setup recommendations

Hi,

I just wondered if anyone had good ideas about suggested partition
schemes for open vpn. I was about to install it onto a new box, which
should be a decided OpenVPN server, although it may have to become a
proxy server as well

Is it benificial to also make it a dhcp server?

Any ideas requiring to encrypt hard drive partitions for storing open
vpn data? Is it necessary / where may I look for info?

Thanks

Also it has a 20GB drive. I was going to use Genoo for the system.

David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wondered if anyone had good ideas about suggested partition
> schemes for open vpn. I was about to install it onto a new box, which
> should be a decided OpenVPN server, although it may have to become a
> proxy server as well
>
> Is it benificial to also make it a dhcp server?
>
> Any ideas requiring to encrypt hard drive partitions for storing open
> vpn data? Is it necessary / where may I look for info?
>
> Thanks

On 21 Jul 2006 07:54:20 -0700
"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Also it has a 20GB drive. I was going to use Genoo for the system.
>
> David wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wondered if anyone had good ideas about suggested partition
> > schemes for open vpn. I was about to install it onto a new box,
> > which should be a decided OpenVPN server, although it may have to
> > become a proxy server as well
> >
> > Is it benificial to also make it a dhcp server?
> >
> > Any ideas requiring to encrypt hard drive partitions for storing
> > open vpn data? Is it necessary / where may I look for info?
> >
> > Thanks

20GiB disk? That makes ALL the difference. I suggest you read their FAQ
it has several design considerations.

--
Regards, Ed :: http://www.gnunix.net
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"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go
and fight it." -- Gen. Eisenhower

David wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just wondered if anyone had good ideas about suggested partition
> schemes for open vpn. I was about to install it onto a new box, which
> should be a decided OpenVPN server, although it may have to become a
> proxy server as well
>
> Is it benificial to also make it a dhcp server?
>
> Any ideas requiring to encrypt hard drive partitions for storing open
> vpn data? Is it necessary / where may I look for info?
>
> Thanks

One idea may be to virtualize the different components. Put the OpenVPN box
into one virtual machine, the proxy into another, dhcp in another, etc.
That way you can reuse the hardware, and if the config of one of those
items requires different components in the Linux OS they won't interfere
with each other. Also by virtualizing them if you upgrade the hardware it
is a file copy to the new box, no need to reinstall/reconfigure the
applications in the virtual machines. I was considering installing an
OpenVPN box this way with the now free VMWare Server product
(http://www.vmware.com/server).

I also thought OpenVPN was just at the networking layer, not the hard drive
encryption area? Most of the hard drive encryption I've done is when I
setup the Linux box, such as in the Suse partition setup tool.

--

J Wessels