Regarding Windows OpenVPN GUI: I have an internal fork of this OpenVPN GUI (https://github.com/jochenwierum/openvpn-manager) from jochenwierum, with many bug fixes and improvements, and it works fairly well on Windows. Maybe I should tidy my patches and open source it on github?
Best, Fish -----Original Message----- From: Morris, Russell [mailto:rmor...@rkmorris.us] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 7:59 AM To: Heiko Hund <heiko.h...@sophos.com>; sam...@openvpn.net Cc: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] Creating a Windows team for OpenVPN? Hi, Just a couple thoughts here, from a (absolutely!) non-expert ... :-(. I have been trying to develop my own "GUI" - not because the current one doesn't work (not at all!), but because I want a bit of an extended feature set ... to be able to change Tray Icon color with traffic (Tx/Rx), and plot ping timing to a remote machine over the link, and as well traffic and bit rate plots in the UL and DL. That all said, I can definitely see that the network adapter (TAP) and openvpn.exe really are up and down (a lot!) on Windows ... :-(. I am trying to use NSSM to at least keep openvpn.exe up (i.e. restart it), but the network connection is a challenge also - often having to be reset (disabled and enabled). So to the question below ... yes, Windows does need some work. I'd be happy to help out - but as above, I'm not an expert. So definitely willing, but usefulness may be questionable unfortunately ... ;-). Thanks! ... Russell -----Original Message----- From: Heiko Hund [mailto:heiko.h...@sophos.com] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:16 AM To: sam...@openvpn.net Cc: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] Creating a Windows team for OpenVPN? On Monday 19 October 2015 10:20:23 sam...@openvpn.net wrote: > > > I'm thinking it might make sense to create a dedicated Windows team > > > that could share the burden of Windows issues amongst themselves, > > > without any one person gettings tagged the "Windows guy". > > > > Judging from the review the Windows patches received I think this might be > > an too ambitious goal. Obviously not many care besides the regulars who > > make a > > Anyways, not many seemed to care about about easy-rsa before it became a > separate project in GitHub. Now we have easy-rsa 3 by pekster and ecrist. > Similarly for openvpn-build we have/had Alon, pekster, me and syzzer. I'm > sure more examples could be found from other projects. > > I'm also not speaking primarily of Windows patches, but also all the other > stuff such as debugging, user support, ticket review, packaging, etc. Ok, I think here is the main misunderstanding. My understanding was that you want a Windows development team. That I think would be counter productive. For the other topics I do not have a opinion. > > > am working on a replacement for openvpnserv.exe. > > > > Please consider reviewing and improving the interactive service patch > > instead of duplicating work. > > Are you saying that the interactive service also doubles as a Windows system > service? If so, can it be configured to autostart selected openvpn > connections on boot and restart them if they crash/stop? No, and I do not think that the service should take care of that. That's rather things that can be handled by the GUI. > Now, can anyone provide proof that having a Windows team would actually > _hurt_ the project? If not, what does it matter if it fails? We could just > scrap the idea retroactively. Hehe nice turn demanding proof, that'll shut up ppl. =) Heiko Sophos Technology GmbH, Amalienbadstraẞe 41/Bau 52, D-76227 Karlsruhe, Deutschland Tel +49 (0)721 25516 0 Fax +49 (0)721 25516 200 E-Mail i...@sophos.de www.sophos.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Karlsruhe, Amtsgericht Mannheim HRB 712658 Geschäftsführer: Nicholas Bray, Pino von Kienlin, Wolfgang Hilpert, Jennifer Onslow. Sophos GmbH, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Deutschland Tel +49 (0) 611 5858-0 Fax +49 (0) 611 5858-1042 E-Mail i...@sophos.de www.sophos.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Wiesbaden, Amtsgericht Wiesbaden HRB 25915 Geschäftsführer: Nicholas Bray, Wolfgang Hilpert, Pino von Kienlin, Jennifer Onslow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
