OpenVPN

[Guest tomolewis]

Just wondering if anybody has thought about putting openvpn on the vega.........I would love this so i can connect to my home network :lol:

thanks

[Guest Scanno]

Just wondering if anybody has thought about putting openvpn on the vega.........I would love this so i can connect to my home network :lol:

thanks

I would love to have OpenVPN on my POV Mobii for the same reason. With the kernel sources available it should be possible to build the required kernel modules required to run OpenVPN.

I hope that in the near future we will see an openvpn implementation running on the Vega / POV

[Guest kingmob]

I would love to have OpenVPN on my POV Mobii for the same reason. With the kernel sources available it should be possible to build the required kernel modules required to run OpenVPN.

I hope that in the near future we will see an openvpn implementation running on the Vega / POV

Try a CM port, it has OpenVPN built in - you configure and launch it in exactly the same way as the other VPN types.

[Guest Scanno]

Try a CM port, it has OpenVPN built in - you configure and launch it in exactly the same way as the other VPN types.

I will as soon as they are a bit more stable for the Vega. For now the Vega 1.08 rom is good enough. The CM7 build that is around does not have sensors working and i need them. I use the Vega a lot for reading.

Gingerbread is looking nice on my Dream/G1 though :-)

[EDIT]

Just read that Paul has build a new kernel with TUN support.... So it possible to use Openvpn now...

Edited January 28, 2011 by Scanno

[Guest software]

Ok managed to get openvpn working with pauls new kernel . Here are the steps if . These work on r6 should be the same on other roms as well I think.

1 - Install new kernel

2 - Install openvpn-intaller ( market ) When installing point it the busybox to /system/xbin/bb ( This is the second question the installer wil ask you )

3 - Use adb to connect to your device and remount the partition. [ adb remount ] You can use the adb binary inside pauls rom packages.

4 - Create symlinks to ifconfig and route for openvpn to use.

./adb shell ln -s /system/xbin/ifconfig /system/xbin/bb/ifconfig

./adb shell ln -s /system/xbin/route /system/xbin/bb/route

5 - Set up openvpn configs like usual and you are good to go ;)

[Guest elvch01]

I too have managed to get openVPN working on the R8 release ROM although I found that I had to remove some of the symlinks that linked to the "toolbox" utility and re-link then to "busybox". I also used a statically linked executable of openVPN 2.1 RC15 that I found somewhere with the aid of Google.

It works very well and I have successfully tested it from a foreign location whereupon I could still access BBC iPlayer content :D