The installation of the OpenVPN based IPv6 tunnel broker client consists of three different steps:

1. Subscription to the service and receiving of configuration files from tunnel broker.
2. Installation of the OpenVPN client.
3. Installation of the OpenVPN configuration files provided by the tunnel broker.

The subscription part is the non technical part. The technical part starts with the installation of the OpenVPN client. The client should be the newest version and should match the version of the server if possible. It can be downloaded at http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/. Please install the package according to the documentation that can be found on the OpenVPN homepage (quick guide: under Windows, simply double click the EXE file; under Linux, make sure that you have tun-driver and IPv6-support in your kernel and that you have OpenSSL-devel and LZO-devel packages installed and do a “./configure ; make ; make install” -- for details, please refer to OpenVPN’s documentation).

The configuration files that are provided by the tunnel broker must be copied to either /etc/openvpn (Linux) or to the config subdirectory of your OpenVPN installation (Windows). Starting the client is trivial.

For Linux type:

#openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/<your.ID>.conf

For Windows, run OpenVPN either as a service or from the cmd.exe shell.