hi,

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:22:36PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Jan Just Keijser <janj...@nikhef.nl> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW: I've patched openvpn to set routes using DHCP on Windows and yes,
> > it works: I can add any route to the system routing tables, including
> > 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.1/1 ; this could be used as an alternative to
> > requiring elevated privileges.
>
> This is excellent news. Is routing the only function that needs admin
> privileges on windows while starting openvpn?

It's less excellent than it might sound - anything IPv4-only is not good
enough in 2015 (and I have my doubts that it will be able to do the
redirect-gateway work needed in a large number of VPn cases - but might be
pleasantly surprised).

gert
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