openvpn server in a jail

Shelby Cain scain at exgenesis.com
Tue Apr 22 00:04:05 UTC 2008


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Bill Moran wrote:
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| I couldn't get it to work.  The primary problem being that OpenVPN needs
| to create a tun device, and you can't do that inside a jail.
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| Someone more clever than I may have figured out a way to pull it off ...
| I'd be interested to know about it.
I know next to nothing about FreeBSD jails, but is there some reason you 
couldn't add "openvpn --mktun --dev <name>" commands to rc.local (or 
whatever FreeBSD's equivalent is) to pre-create the tun device nodes 
prior to running the jailed version of openvpn?

Regards,

Shelby Cain
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