I saw few cases when openvpn.exe remains running even after openvpn-gui told it to stop (and it was awful). is iservice magic of start/stop openvpn.exe the same as for openvpn-gui ?
if yes, I would say that it is ok to switch to iservice by default. 2016-02-08 12:42 GMT+05:00 Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de>: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 08:35:54AM +0500, ???????? ?????????????? wrote: > > I have one question regarding that. > > when we deployed openvpn, we used to supply our users a config file > without > > "nobind" keyword. > > > > it worked for most of our users, however, those who needed 2 or more vpn > > connections complained that "port already bind". so, we added "nobind" to > > client config files and people become happy. > > > > what about that PR. there might be cases when > > > > 1) interactive service installed > > 2) user is administrator > > > > how many openvpn processes will be running ? how many of them will > attempt > > to bind to 1194 ? > > You still seem to misunderstand what iservice does - iservice does not > automatically run "thousands of OpenVPN processes". It will do what the > GUI tells it to. > > So if it does not work without iservice because GUI tries to start two > jobs with "bind 1194", it will not work with iservice either - no > difference here. First bind will succeed, second one will not. > > What is "first" depends on what the GUI starts first - it's all controlled > by the GUI, the service does not start anything on its own. > > gert > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > // > www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > g...@greenie.muc.de > fax: +49-89-35655025 > g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de >
