Hello Julien,

julien Touche <julien.tou...@lycos.com> 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

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