OpenVPN is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Software that allows for machines in different physical locations to act as if they are on the same physical network. When implemented on both the server and client machines the client is then able to interact with machines and resources on the server's end as though it were connected to them. Gerenally used for network storage with some small background in network gaming in the free VPN client Hamachi.
OpenVPN can be installed from an rpm package on a linux based machine, installed through aptitude or apt-get, or built from source using the ./configure method.
The following dependencies need to be fulfilled in order to install OpenVPN:
Since the LAIR uses s specially numbered local subnet that isn't in any of the more common numbering schemes as 10.0.0.0/24 and 192.168.0.0/24 Configuring the IP settings of the subnets isn't an issue. The things that will need to be done are: