Notices

not sure what you mean - openvpn has a client app for the n900, and also a GUI front end that lets you control the connection from the phone's status menu. You can download them from the repo's.

openvpn is also available for linux/windows, just download & install. It comes with sample conf files, how you tweak them depends on what you want to achieve - the ones in my first post are specific to my own requirements but would serve as a guide if you have a similar setup in mind.

I was hoping something like this

Run Connect/Disconnect/Preconnect Scripts
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There are three diffrent scripts that OpenVPN GUI can execute to help
with diffrent tasks like mapping network drives.

Preconnect If a file named "xxx_pre.bat" exist in the config folder
where xxx is the same as your OpenVPN config file name,
this will be executed BEFORE the OpenVPN tunnel is established.

Connect If a file named "xxx_up.bat" exist in the config folder
where xxx is the same as your OpenVPN config file name,
this will be executed AFTER the OpenVPN tunnel is established.

Disconnect If a file named "xxx_down.bat" exist in the config folder
where xxx is the same as your OpenVPN config file name,
this will be executed BEFORE the OpenVPN tunnel is closed.


as specified in
http://openvpn.se/install.txt

anything like this?

that applies to a windows version of the openvpn GUI (it uses .bat files). I don't know if the openvpn GUI/applet on the n900 supports autorun of shell scripts with appropriate naming, you'd need to check that with the maintainer. If not, using the up/route-up directives in the .conf file like I said should hopefully do what you want, as they also provide the means to run any desired commands from a shell script after the vpn connection has been established and route(s) are set up.

sorry i'm a bit late - here's how i worked around that issue, maybe it's of some help to you (or at least makes it clearer why it works now ).
basically, i make sure the N900 has a valid route to my VPN server, and then define that server's gateway as default gateway. works like a charm


just create shell scripts at an appropriate location, make them executable (obviously), and reference them in your client config (as pigro does - "up" and "down" are in fact references to scripts being called).
check the openvpn documentation for "scripting variables".

oh, and you _have_ to set "script-security 2", otherwise no scripts will be called.