It might be only configured using gui/registry, right?
Conditional configuring using ovpn files is not possible ? (Like "use those
scripts only on windows)
On Feb 16, 2018 8:49 AM, "Selva Nair" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> ,
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:47 PM, fragmentux <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > On 13/02/18 21:04, David Sommerseth wrote:
> >>
> >> On 13/02/18 17:21, Илья Шипицин wrote:
> >>>
> >>> personally, I would like something like "preconnect script" which will
> >>> check
> >>> something and decide "we are in a place, where vpn is not needed"
> >>
> >>
> >> This feature has been requested numerous times. And it is not needed.
> >> Really. You have the management interface which can be done to resolve
> >> exactly that problem.
> >>
> >> - OpenVPN is configured with --management and --management-hold
> >>
> >> - Start the management client script
> >> - polls for the OpenVPN management port to become available if it is
> >> not
> >> getting a connection instantly
> >> - once connected, it can do whatever queries/preparations needed
> >> - sends the 'hold release' command on the management inteface
> >>
> >> - OpenVPN starts connecting to the remote server
> >>
> >> And if OpenVPN looses its connection, the management interface can
> capture
> >> that and do whatever it needs to do. And if OpenVPN stops running/dies,
> >> this
> >> management client script can even detect that and do whatever is needed
> in
> >> this scenario as well - like restarting OpenVPN.
> >
> >
> > If starting openvpn with the Windows GUI would a separate background
> > process be required to be polling the management port *all* the time
> > and take appropriate action upon connection ?
> >
> > If so, a --pre-connect script could be useful in that whatever tests
> > are required are only run prior to sending any data or other action.
> > Returning 0 to continue or anything else to abort ..
> > with an appropriate verbage openvpn.log error message.
> >
> > Another 'blade' for the "swiss army knife" of openvpn ..
>
> The Windows GUI already supports a preconnect script. It waits on the
> script for a user defined timeout seconds and abort the connection if
> the script fails.
>
> Selva
>
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