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The purpose of this document is to describe how to install OpenVPN server on an Ubuntu Linux system and have it utilize an Ethernet bridge to access your local network. Ethernet bridges essentially allow the operating system to treat multiple network interfaces as one combined port. When used with OpenVPN a bridge will allow you to easily connect external users to your internal network and have them receive all traffic as though they were locally connected. The alternative is to use OpenVPN with a route but that will not allow some forms of traffic through (such as multicast), multicast traffic is important to me as many games require multicast data.

I’m a huge fan of IPCop. It’s a great firewall distro that makes administration a snap using a slick web interface. My goal was to use IPCop and an easy-to-use VPN client to allow access to my LAN while away from home. I ended up going with the ZERINA OpenVPN addon for IPCop and the OpenVPN GUI for Windows.

Howto for ZERINA 0.9.0b - ZERINA 0.9.4b This howto will guide you step by step on howto configure the OpenVPN addon, so that you can run an OpenVPN server on your IPCop firewall, so that roadwarrior clients (Win32 in this howto)can reach your lan. This is what we call "hassle free roadwarrior vpn" ;-)