This Tutorial explains how to build a simple PeerVPN network that consists of two Linux machines. It is assumed that you already have installed PeerVPN on these two machines, which will be called "Node A" and "Node B" from now on.
Create the peervpn.conf of Node A with the following content:
This will open UDP port 7000 and create a virtual ethernet interface with the name peervpn0 and the IP address 10.8.0.1.
Please note that Node A needs to be directly reachable from Node B. If Node A is behind a NAT device, you will have to forward port 7000.
Create the peervpn.conf of Node B with the following content:
initpeers node-a.example.com 7000
Replace node-a.example.com with the real address of Node A.
To test if everything works, start PeerVPN on both nodes. Each node should now have created its own peervpn0 interface. It may take some time until the VPN tunnel is built. Try to ping 10.8.0.2 from Node A or ping 10.8.0.1 from Node B. If you get a response, the VPN has been set up successfully!
Copy the peervpn.conf of Node B to the new node and change the IP address in the ifconfig command to 10.8.0.3, 10.8.0.4, and so on. If you start the node, there will be a tunnel to Node A first. After some time, tunnels to Node B and all other nodes should be automatically built.