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OpenVPN

VPN client.

Website: https://openvpn.net/download-open-vpn/

Configuration

Requirement:

  • .ovpn configuration file
  • openvpn installed

Load the configuration file
openvpn2 --config janik_vonrotz@vpn.example.ch.ovpn

Import config
openvpn3 config-import --config janik_vonrotz@vpn.example.ch.ovpn

List configs
openvpn3 configs-list

Start session
openvpn3 session-start --config janik_vonrotz@vpn.example.ch.ovpn

Get PID
openvpn3 sessions-list

Kill session
sudo kill $PID

Troubleshooting

Unrecognized arguments

While parsing the config file this error is thrown:

** ERROR ** /bin/openvpn2: error: unrecognized arguments: --route-delay 4

Simply comment the config line out to resolve this issue.