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| author | Dante Catalfamo | 2020-08-16 15:37:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Dante Catalfamo | 2020-08-16 15:37:59 -0400 |
| commit | c93a61e79164c112d8df7e22c4145182ea46b794 (patch) | |
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vpn-gateway: add more about checking new IP
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diff --git a/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org b/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org index 585a197..e1aadd0 100644 --- a/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org +++ b/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org @@ -62,10 +62,11 @@ * Install OpenBSD I won't be covering installing OpenBSD here, although it's extremely - simple and straight forward. You can pick up the disk =.iso= image or - USB =.fs= image from the [[https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Download][download]] page on OpenBSD website. If this is - your first time installing OpenBSD, you should check out the -[[https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Download][ installation guide]], which goes over the process in detail. + simple and straight forward. You can pick up the disk =.iso= image + or USB =.fs= image from the [[https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Download][download]] page on OpenBSD website. If + this is your first time installing OpenBSD, you should check out the + [[https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Download][ installation guide]], which goes over the process in detail. You may + also want to consider checking out my [[{{< ref openbsd-introduction-talk >}}][Introduction to OpenBSD]] talk. * Configuring a Static IP @@ -109,7 +110,6 @@ : status: active : inet 192.168.0.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 - * Configuring OpenVPN ** Installation @@ -188,4 +188,14 @@ - =rcctl start openvpn= starts the =openvpn= daemon. If things are configured correctly, you should now see a =tun= - device in your =ifconfig=. + device in your =ifconfig=, and your traffic should be going through + the VPN. To easily check this you can make a request to a service + like https://icanhazip.com or https://ifconfig.so using the =ftp= + command. + + #+BEGIN_SRC shell + ftp -o- https://canhazip.com 2>/dev/null + #+END_SRC + + This should output your current external IP address, which should + belong to your VPN provider. |