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This weekend, we completed an installation of OpenVPN on our office network. Slipping the surly password-protected bonds of the shoddy and occasionally expensive Microsoft PPTP VPN was nice, and gave us many more options going forward.

Controlled, as all good open source applications are, by a series of sometimes-cryptic configuration files, there are all kinds of directives available that you can use to control its behavior and your clients’ access to the various parts of your network. Adding and removing access to the network is as simple as adding and removing a key, and with 2048 bit encryption, you can work from Starbucks without fear.

It happily works for OSX, Linux and Windows clients, and is just as happily served from those OSes.

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If your VPN is onerous and you have a little free time and a machine with some spare bandwidth, go liberate your network!

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