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Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows 98 port


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows 98 port
  • From: "James Yonan" <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:51:52 -0000

Renato, Doncho,

I seriously doubt that a 98/Me series Windows port will happen, unless a rare
individual comes forward (definitely not me!) who is both crazy enough and
sufficiently "in-the-know" to attempt it.  You have to understand that even
with good documentation, and good underlying network design, it is quite
challenging for a non-insider to write a kernel driver for a closed-source OS.
 Now when the documention isn't there, and the network model is vintage, and
there's no sample code lying around that could be used as a starting point,
and you don't have the benefit of being privy to the OS internals, well ...
you get the idea.

James

Renato Salles <rsalles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> Doncho,
> 
> Do you have that deseases running around? Like me! At least one client has
> 30/40 hosts running win98. The reason is the lack of hardware resources...
> IMHO, it's difficult -  if not impossible - to backport OpenVPN to M$
> Windows older than 2kPro, due to the jurassic network desing model used by
> Redmond folks.
> Well, perheaps you better wait for James Yonan to give you a better
> feedback than this.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> RSalles
> 
> 
> 
> Doncho N. Gunchev disse:
> >     I want to get rid of my pptp vpn here. OpenVPN fits all my needs
> > except one - we have clients running Win98. I tryed to search the
> > list archive with no luck, so I want to ask are there any plans or
> > chances someone to 'backport' OpenVPN to windows 98?
> >     10x in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >   Doncho N. Gunchev    Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org
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