Hi list,
Few weeks ago I've announced on users list that I will publish a patch
aiming at adding a tcp server in the wrapper. That's now done.
I'm not familiar with patch making with diff and my modifications only
apply on the service-win32 directory in the openvpn source code.
What have been added precisely?
- a client apps (whitout any admin credentials) can talk with a tcp
server launched in the actual openvpnserv.exe windows service.
- on localhost only
- without any auth. from the client.
- it's for now possible to start/stop a tunnel via a gui/console app.
- the actual functions of automatic launch of tunnels is still ok but
you have to add the config filename of the tunnel that must be run at
startup into a new file named service.cfg (placed into the openvpn
config files dir). It's necessary because in the original service, all
.ovpn files were ran at startup. So now you can start a tunnel1.ovpn at
startup and allow a user to start another tunnel2.ovpn when he want
using a GUI/console app.
What have change in the original code?
- rewrite of some functions in order to use them more accuratly in the
tcp server
- the makefile have been change a little too.
- add of tcpser.c and tcpser.h
Where do I get it?
You can get 2 tarballs for now:
- one including the patched wrapper which just have to replace
completely the actual code.
- one with the client code I use to test the tcp server. This code
probably only helps GUI developpers
http://conchaudron.free.fr/contrib/openvpn/tcp_client_openvpn.tgz
http://conchaudron.free.fr/contrib/openvpn/tcp_server_openvpn.tgz
Mathias Sundman will work on the client code in order to add this
feature on his GUI.
Thanks to the list for his ideas (in an old thread;-) on this kind of
features.
Thanks to Mathias for his help in my first real contribution to opensource.
Didier
