Setup IITP VPN in Linux machine

13 Apr 2020

NOTICE 09/05/20: The institute has moved to Cisco VPN and you can connect to it via Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network.

Steps to follow:

1. Get VPN credentials from institute officials over webmail

    To: cc [AT] iitp [DOT] ac [DOT] in
    Cc: cc_head [AT] iitp [DOT] ac [DOT] in
   

2. Download OpenVPN 2.4.8 from here or here

3. Extract files tar xvf openvpn-2.4.8.tar.gz

4. Install dependencies

   1. sudo apt-get install liblzo2-de
   2. sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev
   3. sudo apt install libssl1.0 libssl1.0-dev
5. Run configure. The configure script is responsible for getting ready to build the software on your specific system. It makes sure all of the dependencies for the rest of the build and install process are available.

    cd openvpn-2.4.8
    ./configure
   

6. Install sudo make install

7. Login IITP SSL VPN portal to get VPN configuration

8. Click on “Client Configuration for MAC Tunnelblick” and download VPN configuration

9. Extract configuration

    tar xvf clientbundle.tgz
    cd clientbundle/CRSSLconfig.tblk
   

10. Run VPN with configuration sudo openvpn --config client.ovpn and enter your VPN credentials.

Tested in Ubuntu 18.04 machine on 13 April 2020.

Disclaimer: You may face incompatibility issues for other versions of OpenVPN.