In this page you find:
In this page appears the list of the Endian Hotspot Appliance’s connections as OpenVPN clients, i.e., all tunnelled connections to remote OpenVPN servers. For every connection, the list reports the status, the name, any additional option, a remark, and the available actions.
The status is closed when the connection is disabled, established when the connection is enabled, and connecting… while the connection is being established. Beside to enable and to disable a connection, the available actions are to edit or delete it. In the former case, a form will open, that is the same as the one that opens when adding a connection (see below) in which to see and modify the current settings, whereas in the latter case only deletion of that profile from the Endian Hotspot Appliance is permitted.
The creation of a new OpenVPN client connections is straightforward and can be done in two ways: Either click on the Add tunnel configuration button and enter the necessary information about the OpenVPN server to which to connect (there can be more than one) or import the client settings from the OpenVPN Access Server by clicking on Import profile from OpenVPN Access Server.
There are two types of settings that can be configured for each tunnel configuration: The basic one includes mandatory options for the tunnel to be established, while the advanced one is optional and normally should be changed only if the OpenVPN server has a non-standard setup. To access the advanced settings, click on the >> button next to the Advanced tunnel configuration label. The basic settings are:
A label to identify the connection.
The remote OpenVPN server’s FQDN, port, and protocol in the form
myvpn.example.com:port:protocol. The port and protocol are
optional and left on their default values which are 1194 and
udp respectively when not specified. The protocol must be
specified in lowercase letters.
The server certificate needed for the tunnel connection. Browsing the local filesystem is admitted, to search for the file, or the path and filename can be entered.
Note
If the server is configured to use PSK authentication (password/username), the server’s host CA certificate must be uploaded to the Endian Hotspot Appliance. This can be downloaded from the Download CA certificate link in the OpenVPN server’s section ().
Otherwise, to use certificate-based authentication, the server’s
PKCS#12 file must be uploaded. This can be downloaded by going
to the Endian Hotspot Appliances certificate section
() and then clicking on the 
icon next to
in the action column of the certificate selected for the tunnel.
Insert here the Challenge password, if one was supplied to the CA before or during the creation of the certificate. This is only needed when uploading a PKCS#12 certificate.
If the server is configured to use PSK authentication (password/username) or certificate plus password authentication, provide here the username and password of the account on the OpenVPN server.
A comment on the connection.
In this box, that appears when clicking on the >> button in the previous box, additional options can be modified, though the values in this box should be modified only if the server side has not been configured with standard values.
One or more (one per line) fallback OpenVPN servers in the same
format used for the primary server, i.e.,
myvpn.example.com:port:protocol. The port and protocol values
default to 1194 and udp respectively when omitted. If the
connection to the main server fails, one of these fallback servers
will take over.
Hint
The protocol must be written in lowercase letters.
The device used by the server, which is either TAP or TUN.
This drop-down menu is not available if TUN has been selected as Device type, because in this case the connection type is always routed. Available options are routed (i.e., the client acts as a gateway to the remote LAN) or bridged (i.e., the client firewall appears as part of the remote LAN). Default is routed.
This field is only available if TAP has been selected as Device type and the connection type is bridged. From this drop-down menu, select the zone to which this client connection should be bridged.
This option is only available if the Connection type is routed. Tick this checkbox to hide the clients connected through this Endian Hotspot Appliance behind the firewall’s VPN IP address. This configuration will prevent incoming connections requests to the clients. In other words, incoming connections will not see the clients in the local network.
Tick this checkbox to avoid receiving DHCP responses from the LAN at the other side of the VPN tunnel that conflict with a local DHCP server.
Compress the traffic passing through the tunnel, enabled by default.
The protocol used by the server: UDP (default) or TCP. Set to TCP only if an HTTP proxy should be used: In this case, a form will show up to configure it.
If the Endian Hotspot Appliance can access the Internet only through an upstream HTTP proxy, it can still be used as an OpenVPN client in a Gateway-to-Gateway setup, but the TCP protocol for OpenVPN must be selected on both sides. Moreover, the account information for the HTTP upstream proxy must be provided in the text fields:
The HTTP proxy host, e.g., proxy.example.com:port, with the
port defaulting to 8080 if not entered.
The proxy account information: The username and the password.
Tick the checkbox to use NTLM authentication on the proxy.
A forged user agent string can be used in some cases to disguise the Endian Hotspot Appliance as a regular web browser, i.e., to contact the proxy as a browser. This operation may prove useful if the proxy accepts connections only for some type of browsers.
Once the connection has been configured, a new box at the bottom of the page will appear, called TLS authentication, from which to upload a TLS key file to be used for the connection. These options are available:
The key file to upload, searchable on the local workstation.
The MD5 checksum of the uploaded file, which will appear as soon as the file has been stored on the Endian Hotspot Appliance.
This value is set to 0 on servers and to 1 on clients.
The second possibility to add an account is to directly import the profile from an OpenVPN Access Server: In this case, the following information must be provided:
A custom name for the connection.
The URL of the OpenVPN Access Server.
Note
Note that the Endian Hotspot Appliance only supports XML-RPC
configuration of the OpenVPN Access Server, therefore a URL
input here has the form: https://<SERVERNAME>/RPC2.
The username and password on the Access Server.
If this checkbox is ticked and the server is running on an SSL encrypted connection, then the SSL certificate will be checked for validity. Should the certificate not be valid then the connection will be immediately closed. This feature might be disabled when using a self-signed certificate.
A comment to recall the purpose of the connection.