[Win32] New NT service for openvpn.exe

gridrun

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I've noticed a problem with the win32 client (service) on several machines - laptops to be precise: The client often fails to re-establish the VPN connection after the machine resumes from sleep/standby mode.

In many cases, a "net stop openvpnservice" would reveal the service wasn't running anymore. In others, the service was up and tried to connect, but connection attempts would time out for no apparent reason.

The problem may always be rectified by restarting the service.

However, when attempting to restart the service from SCM (or rather, services.msc) the service sometimes dies when trying to do so. Same happens when using a .bat file that goes like:

@net stop openvpnservice
@net start openvpnservice

Looks like that issue is timing related. With a short pause inbetween stop and start, it works reliably.

gridrun

I'll probably write my own service. I'm not happy with the default implementation.

gridrun

New Win32 service coming soon!

Features (so far):

- Power event (suspend/resume) support
- Multiple tunnels (openvpn.exe processes)
- Process watchdog per tunnel: automatic restart if openvpn.exe dies
- Priority class setting per tunnel
- Configuration via HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Registry key (working on complete file-less config)
- Per tunnel status written to registry
- Consolidated logging to Win32 event log and Win32 debug output

Stay tuned!
Chris

gridrun

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