hi all,
whilst writing the TFTP/WPAD patch I stumbled upon the options to set a
default gateway and/or routes using DHCP options.
I've patched openvpn to also set DHCP option 3 ("gateway") and indeed,
windows picks up the route supplied to it :)
This might be a way to address this topic from the IRC meeting:
Windows 8.1 DNS registration issues
* ipconfig failing to execute during VPN connection
<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/516>
* Who will fix and how?
It's even possible to run openvpn without admin privileges and set
routes this way!
Before you get too excited: it does not seem to be possible to replace
an existing default GW this way. the new 0.0.0.0 route has the metric of
the tap-win32 adapter , which is better than that of a wifi adapter but
worse (30 == higher) than that of a regular LAN Adapter (metric=10).
Before I go any deeper into this: what does the rest think about setting
routes on Windows this way? It could be a nice way to circumvent all
kinds of "route add" problems.
cheers,
JJK
