From c93a61e79164c112d8df7e22c4145182ea46b794 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dante Catalfamo
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:37:59 -0400
Subject: vpn-gateway: add more about checking new IP
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content/posts/openbsd-vpn-gateway/index.org | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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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.
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