Hi
It doesn't sound that hard to make that patch.
If someone would be so kind and send me one, I would be very grateful.
Tor Håkon Gjerde
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Yonan" <j...@yonan.net>
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] openvpn server in client-to-client mode
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, [iso-8859-1] Tor Håkon Gjerde wrote:
Hi
I would like to run an openvpn server on a shell account without root.
A server that does only client-to-client, with no interface on the server
itself.
But openvpn says it needs an tun or tap device.
I understand this might require the tun or tap device itself to be
emulated.
It's possible but would require a patch.
Essentially you would use a normal server configuration, but then use "dev
null" rather than tun or tap. It should be possible to run from a
non-root shell since no tun/tap device needs to be opened.
Right now the OpenVPN server mode only supports "dev tap" or "dev tun" so
someone would need to go through to the code to add support for "dev null"
as well.
"dev null" is presently only supported in point-to-point mode.
James
