Re: VPN suggestions
 

Maybe the thread about PPTP VPN helps. Also see PPTP security concerns.

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Now wait a minute...I was just looking at the Ivacy website and they have a page on configuring OpenVPN on Win XP.
http://ivacy.com/en/doc/user/setup/winxp_openvpn
Doesn't that mean it should work for OpenVPN on Maemo?

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Thanks this helps a lot. I'll see what I can learn before asking for help.

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Yes, it should. Ivacy supports PPTP, IPsec, and OpenVPN. They have howtos for various operating systems, too.

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Seeing how I am an extreme newbie to VPNs and their settings...I was wondering if someone could kindly help me maybe point me in the right direction.
I have Openvpn installed and am using the the front end applet to configure everything. I put these config files(from Ivacy) into the required firelds but I think I'm doing something wrong. When testing it, this error message comes up.

Fri Oct 16 13:56:14 2009 OpenVPN 2.1_rc19 arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] built on Sep 7 2009
Enter Auth Username:Enter Auth Password:Fri Oct 16 13:56:14 2009 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Fri Oct 16 13:56:14 2009 Cannot load certificate file ivacy-keys/ivacy-client.crt: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib: error:140AD002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file:system lib
Fri Oct 16 13:56:14 2009 Exiting

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Cannot load certificate file ivacy-keys/ivacy-client.crt: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: error:20074002

is the .crt in the right folder?

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Maybe.
Here is what I got:
Openvpn applet asks for...

Configuration file:
Key file:
Cert File:
Ca file:
Secret File:
PKCS12 file:

What I get from the Ivacy website is:

Ivacy-client.ovpn
Ivacy-ca.crt
Ivacy-client.crt
Ivacy-client.key
Ivacy-tls.key

Maybe I'm putting some of the files in the wrong fields. This is what I'm assuming.

Configuration file: Ivacy-client.ovpn
Key file: Ivacy-client.key
Cert File: Ivacy-client.crt
Ca file: Ivacy-ca.crt
Secret File: ? don't know maybe Ivacy-tls.key
PKCS12 file: ?

Sorry if there is some obvious stupidity going on here. Can show me what I did wrong?

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Sorry didn't notice the openvpn support

Try to modify Ivacy-client.ovpn so that all files are in same directory.

Modify .ovpn, place all file in the same directory and then try to import them. Make sure that all files are imported, put ivacy-tls.key for example to PKCS12 field (or secret field, doesn't matter), because I don't think that applet has autodetection support for that.

Re: VPN suggestions
 

Okay I modified .ovpn and when importing it put them all in except for ivacy-tls.key. So I put it in the PKCS12 field manually. When running a test now is says something different.

Fri Oct 16 23:24:40 2009 OpenVPN 2.1_rc19 arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] built on Sep 7 2009
Enter Auth Username:Enter Auth Password:Fri Oct 16 23:24:40 2009 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Fri Oct 16 23:24:40 2009 /usr/bin/openssl-vulnkey -q -b 2048 -m <modulus omitted>
Fri Oct 16 23:24:40 2009 ******* WARNING *******: '(null)' is a known vulnerable key. See 'man openvpn-vulnkey' for details.
Fri Oct 16 23:24:40 2009 Cannot open file key file 'ivacy-tls.key': No such file or directory (errno=2)
Fri Oct 16 23:24:40 2009 Exiting

So what is my next step? And I just want to say thank you for all this help.

Re: VPN suggestions
 

it seems that ivacy-tls.key wasn't imported. Apparently there is still problems in openvpn-applet (I am the author).

Easiest is to copy the file manually. Install rootsh, open X terminal, type sudo gainroot, copy with cp ivacy-tls.key /etc/openvpn