Re: [Openvpn-devel] request for input re: OpenVPN API

[Alon Bar-L. <alo...@gm...>]

I don't understand what you are calling an API, but please refer to:
http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/trunk/openvpn/management/management-notes.txt

Maybe it will answer some of your questions.

On 9/16/06, Mike Martin <Mik...@se...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Mike Martin, and I am currently working on my M. Sc. I am
> writing a research paper investigating the feasibility of developing an
> API for a VPN, as discussed in the following quote:
>
> "It would be nice if the Grid application could access the VPN console,
> re-affirm credentials, and register for notifications through an API
> like the GSS or the Advance Reservation API listed above."
> -Volker Sander (ed.) (2004) /Networking Issues for Grid Infrastructure/.
> Global Grid Forum Document Series GFD-37. Available from:
> http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.37.pdf
>
> I started this knowing very little about VPNs, or about API design, but
> my research has led me to believe that OpenVPN would be the best tool
> for the job (I am a firm believer in Open Source Software). I am
> wondering if any OpenVPN developers would be willing to fill out a short
> (from my perspective) questionnaire regarding the requirements for such
> an API for OpenVPN, either for Grid applications specifically, or for
> any client application in general, as I have come to the conclusion that
> an API should not be specific to the client application, but should be
> as general as possible. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
>
> If anyone is interested in participating, please email me off line so we
> don't clutter your mailing list - unless there is such great interest
> you would like to see it in the discussion.
>
> I am a professor of Computer Studies at Seneca College in Toronto:
> mik...@se...
>
> Thanks, you guys have created a great piece of software,
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. We are having our annual Open Source Software Conference in
> October. Here is the url:
> http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fsoss/2006/
>
> It would be good to see OpenVPN people there. Next year I would like to
> do a presentation about OpenVPN, because I am getting so tired of
> everyone thinking IPSec is the only high quality VPN technology. They
> all suffer from the same misconceptions about SSL VPNs that are
> discussed by Charlie Hosner in his SANS paper. I feel like a prophet
> lost in the wilderness.
>
>
>
>
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