Openvpn Fedora tutorial?

[Timothy Murphy]

Is there a good tutorial for openvpn under Fedora?
I've followed the instructions at
<http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=595436>
but they seem to have made things worse rather than better.

When I restart openvpn on my desktop (in another country)
I see in /var/log/messages
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Jan  2 12:43:19 alfred openvpn[2384]: 87.6.120.53:32967 TLS: Initial packet
from 87.6.120.53:32967, sid=be7818b0 fa8fd179
Jan  2 12:43:20 alfred openvpn[2384]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection
refused (code=111)
Jan  2 12:43:21 alfred last message repeated 4 times
Jan  2 12:43:22 alfred openvpn[2384]: 87.6.120.53:32967 TLS: new session
incoming connection from 87.6.120.53:32967
Jan  2 12:43:23 alfred openvpn[2384]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection
refused (code=111)
Jan  2 12:43:24 alfred last message repeated 4 times
Jan  2 12:43:25 alfred openvpn[2384]: 87.6.120.53:32967 TLS: new session
incoming connection from 87.6.120.53:32967
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while when I restart openvpn on my laptop I see
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Jan  2 13:46:23 martha openvpn[3810]: UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Jan  2 13:46:23 martha openvpn[3810]: UDPv4 link remote: 86.43.71.228:1194
Jan  2 13:46:23 martha openvpn[3810]: TLS Error: Unroutable control packet
received from 86.43.71.228:1194 (si=3 op=P_CONTROL_V1)
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Ifconfig shows a tun0 device on my desktop:
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tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:192.168.5.1  P-t-P:192.168.5.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
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but there is no tun? device on my laptop.
[There was a tun0 device before I followed the advice mentioned above.]

Is there an openvpn doctor in the house?
All advice and suggestions gratefully received.





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