On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Mathias Sundman wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Mathias Sundman wrote: > > > I was going to ask for a feature yesterday, but though I'd write it myself > > instead of just asking for others todo things for me :-) > > > > I have about 15 OpenVPN configs on my Windows machine, but I only use 2-3 > > simulatainously. But, as I need be able to connect to more than one site, > > I've had to create one TAP device for EVERY config file, as I had to > > specify > > the the dev-node in every config if I had installed more than one TAP > > device. > > > > With the attached patch this behavior is modified so that if dev-node is > > not > > specified, OpenVPN tries to open the first TAP device is finds. If > > CreateFile() fails on this device, it moves on and tries to open next > > device. > > > > If all CreateFile() fails on all avaiable TAP devices, first then openvpn > > terminates. > > > > This works great as long as all TAP configuration is done dynamically from > > OpenVPN which is always the case for me. If you have static configuration > > done on the TAP devices, you need to use dev-node to specify which device > > to > > use anyway, so I don't think this patch should brake anything. > > Now that Eric Tanner has showed us how we can install the TAP device as > hidden this patch became even more useful, as it's a little troublesome to > change the TAP device name, when it's not visible in "Network Connections" > :-)
Yes, the NCF_HIDDEN flag in the INF file is rather cool, if not a bit subversive. I modified the TAP-Win32 code a while back to not depend on an adapter being listed in the Network Connections panel so that NCF_HIDDEN would work. If it's hidden, you can still open it by name, but you must use the GUID name. The Network Connections panel is basically a link from a friendly name to the GUID name. > James, could you consider applying this patch for the beta12 release? > > If there's something with the patch you dislike or would like to have > implemented in a diffrent way, let me know, and I'll try fixing it... Yes, I do plan to merge it. James
