By the way, there is an open-source SecurePoint VPN client 
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/securepoint/) which handles current versions 
of Windows very well.
And here is my list of available open-source OpenVPN GUIs: 
https://gist.github.com/ValdikSS/9d7b13b5ef510c6b6d45#file-openvpn-guis-md

On 19.10.2015 23:14, Fish Wang wrote:
> 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:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Hehe nice turn demanding proof, that'll shut up ppl. =)
>
> Heiko
>
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