Re: [Openvpn-devel] Intelligent OpenVPN service?

2010-10-25 Thread Daniel Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the replies! I should have specified that the servers are Linux and the clients are Windows. I have no experience with routing protocols on Windows systems, but I've seen plenty of issues in our Windows applications when someone changes

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Intelligent OpenVPN service?

2010-10-19 Thread Markus Feilner
Am Montag, 18. Oktober 2010, um 20:19:53 schrieb Daniel Johnson: > As a bonus, I'd like the service to fail over to TCP if it cannot > establish a UDP connection. However, multiple simultaneous VPN > connections would very likely be bad so I can't just have the > service try both. Hi Daniel,

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Intelligent OpenVPN service?

2010-10-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 10/18/2010 02:14:19 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > On 10/19/2010 07:43 AM, Davide Brini wrote: > > Sorry for the silly question, but how do you expect the OpenVPN > link > to be > > established if the computer "does not already have a connection"? > > > > What do you mean with the above statement? >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Intelligent OpenVPN service?

2010-10-18 Thread Jonathan K. Bullard
You might want to look at the client GUI. For example, Tunnelblick (OS X GUI which also includes imbedded tun/tap kexts, OpenVPN and OpenSSL binaries) has just such a "pre-connnection" feature. People can call a script before OpenVPN is started, and when OpenVPN finishes. It is used to do such

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Intelligent OpenVPN service?

2010-10-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/2010 01:43 PM, Davide Brini wrote: > Sorry for the silly question, but how do you expect the OpenVPN > link to be established if the computer "does not already have > a connection"? > > What do you mean with the above statement? > Ah, I

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Intelligent OpenVPN service?

2010-10-18 Thread Jason Haar
On 10/19/2010 07:43 AM, Davide Brini wrote: > Sorry for the silly question, but how do you expect the OpenVPN link to be > established if the computer "does not already have a connection"? > > What do you mean with the above statement? I think he means: if the machine is on the corporate network,

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Intelligent OpenVPN service?

2010-10-18 Thread Davide Brini
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:19:53 -0500 "Daniel Johnson" wrote: > I want to set up company laptops and remote desktops to use OpenVPN > as a service, but it should *only* connect if the computer does not > already have a connection (such as locally wired or internal > wireless).