* Attention * ovpnClient was replaced by the new Tuntun http://code.google.com/p/tuntun * Attention *

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Preface

ovpnClient is a GNOME applet written in C usefull to manage Vpn connections. It’s a GUI that can show the state of a VPN connection, open or close it through the OpenVpn Management Interface.

Usage

After adding it to the GNOME panel, you can configure the predefined Open VPN connections by clicking with the right mouse button on the ovpnClient icon and then selecting the item Proprerties from the popup menu:

You can add, remove a connection with the buttons add, remove or modify its properties in a window like the following with the button properties:

• Name: connection’s name
• Address: ip address or server name where OpenVPN is running (usually localhost)
• Port: port number where the server is listening, written in the connection config option ‘management‘.

You can simply open or close a connection by selecting it on the menu that will popup with a left clck on the ovpnClient icon. A boubble window will appear whenever the connection state is changed.

Legend of the icons shown on the popup menu:

• connect to the server
• close the opened connection
• connection status unknown (the server running the Management Interface is unreachable, the corresponding menu item will be disabled).

Todo

Some features I like to include in the next versions of ovpnClient:

• Username / password prompt if required by the OpenVPN server
• Integration with GNOME Keyring
• Password support for the connection to the OpenVPN Management Interface
• Applet icon animation to reflect the state of ovpnClien (connection in progress etc…)

ovpnClient dependencies

• GNOME Environment (http://www.gnome.org)
• GNet (http://www.gnetlibrary.org/)
• libnotify (http://www.galago-project.org/)
• OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/)

Download

source: ovpnclient-0.0.2.tar.gz

debian (sid): ovpnclient_0.0.2-0_i386.deb

svn trunk: http://persbaglio.it/svn/ovpnclient/trunk/

Links

• kovpn: it’s a project like ovpnClient, but more advanced and for KDE Desktop (http://www.enlighter.de/)
• Network Manager: it’s a GNOME application and it has a module to control OpenVPN connection (http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/)
• Tango Project: where I’ve taken the icons for ovpnClient (http://tango.freedesktop.org/)