Hi Heiko, Some thoughts on this - by all means let me know your opinion though! 1) Makes sense - and that's what I'm doing currently, querying for proxy information (in Windows, including PAC files as well). 2) Unfortunately it's in Visual Basic - only because that takes care of all the GUI / Windows crud, so it makes that part pretty transparent. As for features, some thoughts ... - automatic proxy detection (and applying that information) - NTLM login to proxy server (using login information) - automatic reconnect (when network connections change), or no reconnect if on the same subnet as the server - recurring ping ... to provide RTT information (plot and histogram) - traffic plots (UL / DL traffic) ... and traffic indicators in the System Tray (state and traffic would be nice)
Just a few ideas ... :-). Thanks! ... Russell On Wed, 02/29/2012 12:57 PM, Heiko Hund <heiko.h...@sophos.com> wrote: > Russell > > On Wednesday 29 February 2012 17:26:46 Russell Morris wrote: > > 1) I know that someone (Heiko?) was looking at auto-proxy a while back. Is > > this now working? Is there a way to test it (if it's now working), to see > > what it determines for a proxy? > > During discussion of the Windows --auto-proxy patches at FOSDEM we've decided > that the auto-proxy detection shouldn't take place within openvpn as it is > very platform specific and there's no apparent need to do it there. We > removed > the --auto-proxy option from openvpn all together, it wasn't working much > anyway and was only supporting Windows. In a future alpha/beta 2.3 release a > GUI will be packaged that reacts to openvpn querying for proxy info via > management interface. Currently I can't offer much to test, though. Sorry. > > > 2) I have a Windows GUI of my own (and I don't mean this as a "competition" > > to the default OpenVPN GUI, not at all!!!). It's just tweaked for my > > personal situation, on and off LAN and wireless, proxy, no proxy, etc. It > > uses the management interface completely. In any case, it has some features > > that I like, more than anything wondering if there are thoughts of extending > > the current GUI to include items like this (as I'd rather use the official > > GUI, I'm no SW expert - not even close). In any case, I have attached a few > > pictures, in case someone has any ideas about new features for the official > > GUI. > > Could you elaborate on the features you want to see included, please. > Obviously you have some nice charts in your GUI. What language did you code > this in? I suppose it's not C with plain WIN32 API? > > Regards > Heiko > -- > Heiko Hund | Software Engineer | Phone +49-721-25516-237 | Fax -200 > Astaro a Sophos Company | Amalienbadstr. 41 Bau 52 | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germany > Commercial Register: Mannheim HRA 702710 | Headquarter Location: Karlsruhe > > Represented by the General Partner Astaro Verwaltungs GmbH > Amalienbadstraße 41 Bau 52 | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germany > Commercial Register: Mannheim HRB 708248 | Executive Board: Gert Hansen, > Markus Hennig, Jan Hichert, Günter Junk, Dr. Frank Nellissen > > > >
