How to install and connect OpenVPN client in FreeBSD

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Prerequsites :

 You should have a remote OpenVPN server running
  You should have an openVPN client config

Install OpenVPN client packages

pkg update
pkg install openvpn

Now create openvpn folder in /usr/local/etc/ . I always create seperate folders for client and server . So I can use it if I need to run both server and client from a same device .

mkdir /usr/local/etc/openvpn/client/

Now you can copy a sample client config to this location , so the sample config will be in :

/usr/local/share/examples/openvpn/sample-config-files

cp -R client.conf /usr/local/etc/openvpn/client/

You can configure your client config with your server IP , type of inetrface etc . I presume you already have this config as this tutorial is not about a complete openvpn server-client set up . So now you need to update the /etc/rc.conf file , you need to enable your openvpn service and also point the client config here as below :

Once this is saved , you can start openvpn .

service openvpn start

So if everything fine you should see your new interface as below . If its not getting an IP nor creating that interface , you need to check the openvpn logs . This is something you specified in your client config

ps ax | grep openvpn

/usr/local/sbin/openvpn --cd /usr/local/etc/openvpn --daemon openvpn --config /usr/local/etc/openvpn/client/client.conf --writepid /var/run/openvpn.pid