On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 07:55:26 -0400 "James P. Wallen" <jpwallen@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On 07/07/2015 04:25 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 04:23:28PM -0400, James P. Wallen > > wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> If any of you has managed to do this in conjunction with > >> wicd, I'd really appreciate a pointer to information to > >> help me get started. The man pages are kicking me in the > >> boinloins. > > > > FWIW -- I set up OpenVPN (don't like it much[1], but had to) > > without either NetworkManager nor wicd. What's the > > functionality you expect from those? Automatic route > > setting? > > > > - - - - - - - - - [1] What do I do when I have to pierce the > > corp firewall? Just use socat on both sides, port 443 (corp > > firewalls believe in numbers), TLS encapsulated (don't know > > if they do deep packet inspection and don't want to find > > out). Yes, some consider me weird. > > > > Hi, Tomas! Thanks for your reply. > > No, my issue has nothing to do with corporate firewalls. I'm > retired and go to places like libraries and coffee shops and > hospitals where I connect to guest networks. I just use the > Internet-located VPN to encrypt my connection through the AP and > to prevent tracking by the service provider. At home I also use > it for the same reasons. > > Network-manager, as you're aware, has plugins for various types > of VPN software. It's easy to use, but it just seems to be > awfully large and, occasionally, a little trouble-prone compared > to wicd. > > I could generally just use /etc/network/interfaces and > associated stuff, but was looking for a fiddle-free way to make > my connections when I'm moving around while still enabling me to > use OpenVPN. > > As I said, just about every write-up on using OpenVPN I can find > tells me how to set up the server. Not what I want. All of the > write-ups on OpenVPN client I've found tell me a) how to use > OpenVPN with network-manager, or b) how to import a setup. > Neither of those is of any use to me. I want to see if I can > figure out how to use OpenVPN from the CLI or via script using a > certificate and password to connect to my favorite VPN out on > the Internet. > > Again, thank you for your reply. > > JP > > https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN Have you seen this? It doesn't contain anything particular to wicd, but you could use what is there to set up a script. There are a few links at the bottom that might also be of help. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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