Hi, On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:51:09PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote: > As for sending data over the link, not sure I follow. Anything run > with user's privileges after the tunnel is established can potentially > use the tunnel.
I assume that this part relates to the synchronous nature of OpenVPN -
so, an --up script will not be able to use the VPN because OpenVPN is
not active (= waiting for the script to end) while the script runs.
Now, on Unix, an --up script could just trivially fork some background
activity
#!/bin/sh
( sleep 10 ; ping host_in_vpn ) &
exit 0
and that ping *would* work - without the ()&, it wouldn't. BTDT :-)
On Windows, I have no idea how to run a background job from a .bat
file, but I'm sure there is a way - and in that case, if the foreground
job finishes, the background job would be able to use OpenVPN as well.
gert
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