Re: [Openvpn-devel] some questions

Hello Julien, julien Touche <jul...@ly...> said: > > Hi > > first greetings for openvpn which is a best of for easy VPN :) Thanks! > > i have a small list of questions i can't answer myself: > > - at which stage is the win32 port ? always looking for tun driver ? > i give a glimpse to cipe driver which seems "simple unix2win" NDIS > driver but 1-cannot compile (need ndis.h part of windows DDK which is > not free download) 2-lot bigger compare to unix tun code (from vtun > site) even if it does more 3- there is no /dev in win so what's best ? > pipe i believe ? I've received email from people in the past who were going to go off and write a tun or tap driver for win32, but none were ever heard from again :( > - is there any way to connect someone which is not-root ? for example, > i'm at work with a desktop computer without root access (maybe even not > sure to have tun/tap driver) but i have only two or three apps i need to > connect to my home vpn (ssh, ftp, ...). i can modify them in order to > send data not on a socket but a pipe (or anything else) which send data > to a modified openvpn and send it on my home vpn. > is it possible or i'm completely dreaming ? It might be possible to run as non-root if you can get read/write access to the TUN/TAP device node. > > another solution is: having a list of port tunneled local (8080, 2222, > ...) to local (9991, 9992, ...) (by stunnel for example) and the latter > list of port i send to vpn by openvpn/nonroot > (of course, we need to define for each local port the distant port AND > host, but if we can change on fly, it will be ok; or maybe someone know > a way for common user to forward all data address to a port to another > host ?) > > the tun/tap driver is only required if want a complete real network > interface, right ? (which is necessary if we want to work with > unmodified apps) There's not much you can do with OpenVPN if you lack a tun/tap driver. James > > > Regards > > > PS: please cc. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-devel mailing list > Ope...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel > --