Installing OpenVPN

[creaky]

Does anyone have a link to an up to date tutorial for installing OpenVPN on proxmox, I’ve found a couple but not been able to get them working.

I want to be able to connect to proxmox and the vm’s remotely and for when downloading torrents.

Is it best to run as a container or a vm? Also what’s the best OS for OpenVPN?

 

[sb-jw]

I would run a pfsense in a VM, so you are flexible and you do not have additional packets on the HV itself.

 

[LnxBil]

Does anyone have a link to an up to date tutorial for installing OpenVPN on proxmox, I’ve found a couple but not been able to get them working.

The LXC configuration in the forum still works:

lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 10:200 rwm
lxc.hook.autodev: /path/to/hook/script

With this hook script:

#!/bin/sh
cd ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev
mkdir net
mknod net/tun c 10 200
chmod 0666 net/tun

(can also be done completely inside of the configuration as a barely-readable one-liner.

Also what’s the best OS for OpenVPN?

Alpine - small and easy:

root@openvpn ~ > df -PTh /
Filesystem           Type            Size      Used Available Capacity Mounted on
.../proxmox/subvol-1254-disk-1                 zfs            64.0M     12.9M     51.1M  20% /

 

[creaky]

The LXC configuration in the forum still works

Stupid question but which file does that edit need to be in?

Also do you have a link to that config or is it in the wiki?

 

[LnxBil]

Stupid question but which file does that edit need to be in?

The LX(C) container configuration file in

/etc/pve/lxc/<container-id>.conf

Also do you have a link to that config or is it in the wiki?

I don't understand that question :-(

 

[creaky]

I don't understand that question :-(

That was me being stupid, not sure what I meant either