What is Open VPN

Open VPN is a compleet-characteristics SSL VPN solution which can Adjustment a wide range of configurations, even remote access, source to destination VPNs, WiFi security, and enterprise-scale remote access resolvent with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls.

Open VPN is mostly run in a windows mode, which can be a little Painful to have lying on the taskbar full time. Open VPN GUI lets we can run Open VPN without this console window. in place of we get an icon in the notification area (the area on the right side of the taskbar) from which we can control Open VPN to start/stop our VPN tunnels, view the log, change our password and other useful things.

OpenVPN GUI is an Open Source project and is licensed under the GPL.
Latest stable release: 1.0.3 with OpenVPN 2.0.9 (2006-10-17)
Latest development release: 1.0.3 with OpenVPN 2.1_beta7 (2005-12-03)

Features in OpenVPN GUI:

* Shows an icon in the notification area from which you control OpenVPN.
* Handles multiple simultaneous connections.
* Hides the OpenVPN console window.
* Log file viewer.
* Edit Config (with a texteditor).
* Start/Stop/Restart the OpenVPN Service (see install.txt for enabling this command).
* Dialog for entering the private key password.
* Dialog for entering username/password authentication credentials
* Change password used to protect the private key (Both PEM and PKCS #12 files).
* Configure Proxy Settings from the GUI.
* Use Internet Explorer Proxy Settings (only if manually configured in IE).
* Execute a batch file before/after connecting and before disconnecting.
* Cmd-line option to autostart a connection at startup (--connect).
* Cmd-line options to override registry settings.
* Shows connection info in the icon tool tip box.

System Requirements:
OpenVPN GUI is written in pure Win32 C code, so it does not require any run-time librarys to work. It is just a single exe-file (about 100KB).

* OpenVPN 1.5 or higher. (Might work with earlier versions, but this is not tested)
* OpenVPN 2.0-beta6 or higher to support multiple simultaneous connections.
* OpenVPN 2.0-beta11 or higher to show the "Connected" msg only after routes have been added to the system.