Hi On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 1:53 PM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using the OpenVPN Gui application on my Windows 10 laptop to connect > to a > variety of locations where I have put OpenVPN servers. > This has always until now been a matter of establishing a connection prior > to > doing something on or via the remote network. > > But now I have another use case, which is to communicate with a remote > device, > which as connected to an OpenVPN server where client-to-client is enabled > but > where there is no exit server side on the VPN server. So all > communications are > on the tunnel itself. > > In this case the process (which works) is this: > - Connect to the tunnel-only server > - Run the special comm program designed to talk to the remote device > - Communicate with the remote device, which is connected 24/7 > - When done close down the VPN tunnel > > I wonder if there is some way (on Windows) to start the tunnel connection > from > the special comm program and then close it down when the comm session is > over > and the program closes. > I have written the comm program and I could add such a feature if it is > possible > to accoplish. > > OpenVPN-GUI is sort of a GUI program so I suspect it does not have any > useful > hooks... > We have some support for sending commands to the GUI to connect, disconnect etc.. See https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui#send-commands-to-a-running-instance-of-openvpn-gui Selva
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