Hi Heiko, Some thoughts, below.
Thanks! ... Russell On Thu, 03/01/2012 03:11 AM, Heiko Hund <heiko.h...@sophos.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 February 2012 23:04:26 Russell Morris wrote: > > 1) Makes sense - and that's what I'm doing currently, querying for proxy > > information (in Windows, including PAC files as well). > > The functionality in the GUI will be the same as in the patches posted > earlier > using WPAD, PAC and the IE settings to get proxy info out of Windows. > > Russell: Sounds good! > > > > - NTLM login to proxy server (using login information) > > Isn't NTLM auth supported by openvpn already? I guess that'll be an easy > improvement, just a checkbox to activate the option. Is there anything else? > > Russell: Yes - don't require storing the login information in a file, but > > rather apply the current user's login info. Make sense? > > > > - automatic reconnect (when network connections change), or no reconnect if > > on the same subnet as the server > > Isn't that handled within openvpn good enough or does --keepalive not react > fast enough for your needs? > > Russell: I can try this. My issue is that the reconnect needs to recheck > > proxy information, and basically re-initiate the connection. It should also > > reconnect after resume (standby / resume). > > > > - 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) > > Things like these are interesting for tech people, I don't think that the > average user will get much out of it. UL/DL stats added to the tool tip of > the > tray icon however is easy to implement and interesting enough to anyone that > I > like it immediately. > > Russell: Sounds good to me - thanks! > > > > 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 > >
