Miika Keskinen <[email protected]> said:
> Hi.
>
> How much functionality there needs to be implemented in order to get
> multiple connections with one tap-adapter working? And then, should that
> be implemented either by implementing ethernet-switch or maybe even with
> bridging-code? Normally when talking about bridges there is limit of 256
> interfaces per bridge and I can see that as an issue.
OpenVPN would need to be a switch. That means scanning ARPs, learning MAC
addresses, propagating broadcasts, etc.
> Then again, another issue with windows version of openvpn and mostly
> it's way of resolving whether it's run as service. It would be more than
> nice to be able to call like os.popen("openvpn ....") on windows too but
> called that way it cannot get those consolethingies and doesn't like it.
> So anyone got this same problem? I think that identifying could be done
> by other means.
OpenVPN doesn't need to be run from a console window (otherwise running as a
service wouldn't work). OpenVPN tries to open the console, but if it doesn't
exist, it is nonfatal -- OpenVPN will continue to run. It does, however, want
the standard file handles (especially stdout) to point to something so it can
generate logging output.
James
> And sorry for my bad engrish ;)
>
> yours.
> Miika Keskinen
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
> administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
> _______________________________________________
> Openvpn-devel mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
>
--