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diff --git a/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org b/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org index c96839a..4d363b1 100644 --- a/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org +++ b/content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ 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 greater detail. +[[https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Download][installation guide]], which goes over the process in detail. In this post the machine will have a single network interface called =vio0= with a desired static IP of =192.168.0.11=, although the @@ -63,3 +63,26 @@ interface and IP in your case will be different. The most important thing is to set a static IP, so it can be set as the gateway for client machines. We'll set this first. + +Setting a static IP in OpenBSD couldn't be simpler. For each interface +on the machine, you can create a file with the name +=/etc/hostname.<if>=, where =<if>= is the name of the interface. Since +we want to set a configure the interface =vio0=, the file we want is +=/etc/hostname.vio0=. If your box was configured with DHCP, the file +might contain =dhcp=. We want to give the interface the static IP +=192.168.0.11=, so we open the file and replace its contents with the +following. + +#+BEGIN_SRC +inet 192.168.0.11/24 +#+END_SRC + +Now we run [[https://man.openbsd.org/man8/netstart.8][=netstart(8)=]] to reconfigure the interface according to the +file we've just edited. + +#+BEGIN_SRC shell +dosa sh /etc/netstat vio0 +#+END_SRC + +Now if you check =ifconfig=, you should see the interface has the +correct IP. |