The installation and configuration of Ace SSL VPN Client is quite similar to other Linux distributions.
Installing on Ubuntu or Debian – Using Network Manager GUI
Get super user rights
sudo su-
Install the necessary binary packages.
apt-get install network-manager-openvpn network-manager-pptp openvpn
- Click on NetworkManager icon and choose VPN Connections… then Configure VPN
- Click on "Add" button
- For the "Gateway" choose one of the "remote" servers in the conf file
- For the "Type" Choose "Passwords with Certificates (TLS)"
- Enter your assigned username and password
- Choose the correct User Certificate, CA Certificate and Private Key (leave the Private Key Password empty)
- Click on the "Advanced…" button
- Under "General" choose Use Custom Gateway Port 443
- Check the "Use LZO data compression" box
- The Network Manager handles everything including swapping the DNS routers in /etc/resolv.conf
Connect to Ace VPN. Open up your browser and go to acevpn.com home page to confirm your IP has changed.
Note: This would use only 1 vpn server instead of all the servers we provide. In case the gateway you added goes down or is inaccessible you will have to manually switch to a different gateway. Also its preferred to create a separate profile for each server.
Installing on Ubuntu or Debian – Compiling from source
Get super user rights
sudo su-
Install the necessary binary packages. We like nano editor due to its simplicity. You are free to use your preferred editor.
apt-get install openvpn openssl resolvconf unzip nano libpkcs11-helper1-dev libpkcs11-helper1
If you would like to compile openvpn from source follow below steps. If you notice we install openvpn binary and then overwrite it by compiling from source.
cd /tmp
apt-get install build-essential openvpn libcurl4-openssl-dev
apt-get install libpkcs11-helper1-dev libpkcs11-helper1
wget http://openvpn.net/release/openvpn-2.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf openvpn-2.1.1.tar.gz
cd openvpn-2.1.1
./configure
make ; make install
Change to openvpn directory.
cd /etc/openvpn
Download the configuration files for Linux.
wget http://www.acevpn.com/download/AceVPN_Configuration_Linux-User.zip
Unzip the configuration files to /etc/openvpn
unzip AceVPN_Configuration_Linux-User.zip
Optional Steps
If you would like to save the password to avoid typing credentials every time
nano acevpn-premium-udp-faster.conf
Comment auth-user-pass by adding “#” before it. It would look like # auth-user-pass
Uncomment auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/acevpn-pass by removing “#”. It would look like auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/acevpn-pass
Hit Ctrl + x and ‘y’ to save and exit.
nano acevpn-pass
Type in your username on the 1st line and the password on the 2nd line. Hit Ctrl + x and ‘y’ to save and exit.
Now it’s time to test the installation
openvpn /etc/openvpn/acevpn-premium-udp-faster.conf
The connection and the tunnel should now get established. Open up your browser and go to acevpn.com home page to confirm your IP has changed.
To stop the VPN
/etc/init.d/openvpn stop
Troubleshooting
If you have DNS issue please refer to this thread http://groups.google.com/group/acevpn/browse_thread/thread/844f365cafe7748c#. Thanks to John F. and scarecrow for this tip.
