AirVPN w/ Raspberry Pi 3 -- working

[baz1nga 0]

I'm posting this hoping it'll help someone else. It's not super detailed but it should get you over the hump.

A better headline would be: "How to setup a RPI as an AirVPN client".

 

My setup:

(I'm using an RPI3 running the max2play image. max2play doesn't really have anything to do with this topic, but just in case you're wondering.)

pi@max2play:~ $ uname -a
Linux max2play 4.4.20-v7+ #908 SMP Wed Sep 7 14:44:27 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

 

How-to:

Read https://gist.github.com/superjamie/ac55b6d2c080582a3e64 to get the overall idea. The instructions below refer to it.

To make it work with AirVPN:

- User > Client Area > Config Generator > RPI

- build your config...

- under section 3. - check ADVANCED

- CHECK: Separate keys/certs from .ovpn file

- download the config as a zip

- Follow instructions up until "Setup VPN Client"... sudo apt-get install openvpn

- move the AirVPN config zip to your RPI.

- I unzipped mine to ./openvpn using unzip AirVPN-2.zip -d openvpn

- (in my case, I generated a config for Alkaid)

- the key thing is what follows:

$ sudo cp openvpn/AirVPN_US-Chicago-Illinois_Alkaid_UDP-443.ovpn /etc/openvpn/client.conf
$ sudo cp openvpn/*crt /etc/openvpn/
$ sudo cp openvpn/*key /etc/openvpn/

in other words:

- you want to copy the files as root to make sure the perms are good.

- the .ovpn file gets copied as name_of_your_config.conf (and not .ovpn)

- FINALLY, edit your /etc/openvpn/name_of_your_config.conf and full path the keys and certs. The last 4 lines should say:

ca "/etc/openvpn/ca.crt"
cert "/etc/openvpn/user.crt"
key "/etc/openvpn/user.key"
tls-auth "/etc/openvpn/ta.key" 1

Back to superjamie's tutorial, you can skip the whole password section. You're ready to test:

sudo openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/name_of_your_config.conf

It should all work. You can verify with...:

$ curl ipinfo.io/`lwp-request -o text checkip.dyndns.org | awk '{ print $NF }'`
{
  "ip": "x.x.x.x",
  "hostname": "No Hostname",
  "city": "",
  "region": "",
  "country": "US",
  "loc": "37.7510,-97.8220",
  "org": "AS35017 Swiftway Sp. z o.o."
}
$

 

From that point on, you can follow the original instructions.

To enable the VPN as a permanent service: sudo systemctl enable openvpn@name_of_your_config

 

PS: this might be useful to you too:

https://www.howtogeek.com/142044/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-an-always-on-bittorrent-box/

 

Bazinga!

[OpenSourcerer 1441]

The headline is a bit too vague.

Do I understand it right that this guide is for configuring OpenVPN as a middle man which redirects WLAN traffic into an OpenVPN tunnel?