Installing OpenVPN

creaky

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

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

With this hook script:

Code:
#!/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:

Code:
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% /
 
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