On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Tomas Nouza wrote:
So my question is, if there is a plan to develop a lightweigh client, that would not need a TUN/TAP interface. Now you can say it's not possible, but it is, with some limitations: The client would support only tunneling, and it would listen on config/command-line specified tcp/udp ports on localhost, encrypt each packet and send it. Received and decrypted packets would of course appear on the localhost (loopback) interface. The usage would be similar to SSH port tunneling, while the openvpn lightweight client would support OpenVPN servers, and port ranges tunnelling.
What would you gain from making OpenVPN work this way, compared to using stunnel that was designed todo just this in the first place?
/Mathias
