Re: [Openvpn-devel] --dev and --dev-name under linux 2.4+

2003-06-03 Thread James Yonan
Hi Sampo, See comments inline... Sampo Nurmentaus said: > > Hi James, > > The original reason for the new option for me was the > ability to move the device file away from /dev. Why not use --dev-node? > This was of cource a really special need to > help me porting openvpn to an embedded pl

Re: [Openvpn-devel] --dev and --dev-name under linux 2.4+

2003-06-03 Thread Sampo Nurmentaus
Hi, Sounds very reasonable to me. And again, my needs on a special embedded hardware with /dev on read-only flash partition are of special kind, so it is perfectly ok for me to use openvpn in a bit hacked manner. I think the main goal is that command line options for a regular user remains as sim

Re: [Openvpn-devel] --dev and --dev-name under linux 2.4+

2003-06-03 Thread Christian Lademann
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:36:55 - "James Yonan" wrote: Hi, James, I wrote this --dev-name - patch. I'm sorry, if I oversaw the interference with --dev. What I need is the posibility to group my different openvpn-interfaces by name, so I can assign firewall-rules more generally using wildcards