From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:20:03 +1000
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] OT: OpenVPN for OS/2 (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re:
 Is there such a device?)
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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> Some clarifying, perhaps... (and my own lack of changing the subject 
> line the last time around didn't help):
>
> On 08/24/09 09:01 pm, Doug LaRue thus wrote :
>> ** Reply to message from "Ed Durrant" 
>> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:02:08 +1000
>>
>>
>>  
>>> While the WRT54G as a basic network device works fine with OS/2 (I 
>>> have been using one as my main router here for many years), my 
>>> question was related to an OS/2 VPN client - from what Lewis says  
>>> the VPN support in the WRT54G (even flashed with the DD-WRT 
>>> firmware) does not have an OS/2 compatible client that is able to 
>>> access the system from another location via the Internet.
>>>     
>>
>> I couldn't dig up the previous comments regarding openvpn on OS/2 or eCS
>> but I did google for it and found a statement which said that openvpn 
>> was
>> ported to OS/2. As Hobbes list it, it's 3 years old but here's the link:
>>
>> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=openvpn&pushbutton=Search
>>
>> maybe what was said regarded backward compatibility.
>>   
> Pasha's port (available on Hobbes) works quite well between OS/2 
> machines, using TAP mode in the included TAP/TUN driver. As that was 
> all the functionality Pasha required for simple OS/2-OS/2 
> communications, he left off the development of the tunneling portion 
> (TUN) of his driver. Thus, his port is suitable for a limited number 
> of applications.
>
> When attempting to use it to connect to a Linux server (firewall) 
> running OpenVPN, I was first stuck with a situation where the client 
> would not pause to allow the entry of a password from the command line 
> (Pasha's instructions were to include the username and password in the 
> config file, which is hardly secure, particularly in plain text). Paul 
> Smedley built a new port of OpenVPN, and did indeed manage to fix the 
> password prompt issue. However, without a working TUN driver, we only 
> have half of the solution (the water without the glass, or 
> vice-versa). I can now establish a connection, but I cannot pass any 
> traffic through it. This, of course, is farther than I got with 
> Pasha's original port, but still not usable for a real world situation.
>
OK, perhaps not such a good solution then .....

Shame.

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