Hi, I am using OpenVpn i client/server mode and I have to say it's a great piece of software.
However, each client on lin/win has to be installed (under root privileges), which brings the limitation. The more insecure your connection is, the more a VPN solution is needed. When you want to connect securely from a library, school or other user-space only pc, you can't do it using OpenVpn, because you are not allowed to install any software. So my question is, if there is a plan to develop a lightweigh client, that would not need a TUN/TAP interface. Now you can say it's not possible, but it is, with some limitations: The client would support only tunneling, and it would listen on config/command-line specified tcp/udp ports on localhost, encrypt each packet and send it. Received and decrypted packets would of course appear on the localhost (loopback) interface. The usage would be similar to SSH port tunneling, while the openvpn lightweight client would support OpenVPN servers, and port ranges tunnelling. Of couse that many options like 'ifconfig', 'push', ... would be ignored by the client, but I still see wide area of usage for this client - secure FTP, VNC, RemDektop, file sharing and more from public computers. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com
