README

   1 OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon
   2
   3 Copyright (C) 2002-2010 OpenVPN Technologies, Inc. This program is free software;
   4 you can redistribute it and/or modify
   5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
   6 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
   7
   8 *************************************************************************
   9
  10 To get the latest release of OpenVPN, go to:
  11
  12         https://openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html
  13
  14 To Build and Install,
  15
  16         tar -zxf openvpn-<version>.tar.gz
  17         cd openvpn-<version>
  18         ./configure
  19         make
  20         make install
  21
  22 or see the file INSTALL for more info.
  23
  24 *************************************************************************
  25
  26 For detailed information on OpenVPN, including examples, see the man page
  27   http://openvpn.net/man.html
  28
  29 For a sample VPN configuration, see
  30   http://openvpn.net/howto.html
  31
  32 To report an issue, see
  33   https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/report
  34
  35 For a description of OpenVPN's underlying protocol,
  36   see the file ssl.h included in the source distribution.
  37
  38 *************************************************************************
  39
  40 Other Files & Directories:
  41
  42 * configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure
  43   script and makefile.
  44
  45 * sample/sample-scripts/verify-cn
  46
  47   A sample perl script which can be used with OpenVPN's
  48   --tls-verify option to provide a customized authentication
  49   test on embedded X509 certificate fields.
  50
  51 * sample/sample-keys/
  52
  53   Sample RSA keys and certificates.  DON'T USE THESE FILES
  54   FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE.
  55
  56 * sample/sample-config-files/
  57
  58   A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from
  59   the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html
  60
  61 *************************************************************************
  62
  63 Note that easy-rsa and tap-windows are now maintained in their own subprojects.
  64 Their source code is available here:
  65
  66   https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa
  67   https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows
  68
  69 The old cross-compilation environment (domake-win) and the Python-based
  70 buildsystem have been replaced with openvpn-build:
  71
  72   https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build
  73
  74 See the INSTALL file for usage information.