OpenVPN 1.5-beta2 is out with quite a few stability improvements on the Windows platform and additional work on TCP support.
Changes include: * Win 2000 now supported as well as XP. * The latest TAP-Win32 kernel driver contains several important stability fixes. If you are upgrading from beta1, make sure to uninstall the beta1 driver using the device manager, reboot, and reinstall the new driver. * The TAP-Win32 driver now passes the Windows driver verifier with all verification tests enabled including low resource simulation. * Additional work on TCP as a tunnel transport protocol. TCP now works correctly with --daemon and can connect to dynamic DNS addresses when --resolv-retry is used. Breaking a TCP connection produces a SIGUSR1 signal in OpenVPN which can then be processed according to your --persist-x options. In general, I've tried to make TCP mode work as much like UDP as possible, including having the client always try to reconnect with the server when the connection is broken. Like UDP mode, --remote can be used on the server to preclude all but a certain address from connecting. A lot more material has been added to the Win32 INSTALL document which can be viewed here, including a mini-HOWTO on ethernet bridging using Windows clients connecting to a Linux server. http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/install32.html The tarball and zip file for this beta can be downloaded from the OpenVPN home page on sourceforge. I would encourage you to report any bugs or problems with this release, and I'd also like to hear from you if it's working great! James
