As everyone who spent any time within 10 feet of me in the last two weeks knows, I recently set up an OpenVPN server using a Raspberry Pi. I used it throughout XDC with nary a hiccup and couldn’t be more pleased. (A blog post on how to do this yourself will be coming soon.)
However, the one thing that was missing was a convenient way to monitor the server. (Actually, “servers” since one is listening on TCP and the other on UDP.) OpenVPN provides a command-line interface for this but I couldn’t find a good GUI, so I made one. If you’re interested, take a look here:
I haven’t yet committed this to the master branch so look at the develop branch, and keep in mind that I literally started this project yesterday and today have it running on MacOS and the Pi. That’s the power of Xojo.
To use it, you have to add a line to your OpenVPN server config file like
management localhost 5555
The port is arbitrary and can be practically anything. If you want to connect remotely, you’ll have to set up SSH key authentication since it won’t ask you for a password.
Kem, please note that modern MacBook / Air / Pro lacks an Ethernet port. I was surprised nearly two years ago when visiting a friend that I had to use WiFi instead of Ethernet to go to Internet
Can you price the elements (so people will have an idea of the whole cost), excepted Xojo, of course.
At the end of each lines of the What Youll Need list for example.
In the mean time, I will try to get French prices (in Euros) or/end German prices (in too !).
Scott, can you try again? I am not seeing that error here (although it did come up a few times in the last day or two while I was editing).
Emile, I’d rather not post prices as they will go out of date. Besides, the bulk of the cost is in the Pi anyway.
Good point about ethernet, I’ll have to add a note that such setups will either needs an ethernet adapter for the Mac, or you’ll need a keyboard and mouse for the Pi.
I can get to the site using my Wireless (Verizon) but when using my DSL connection (ISP is now frontier communications - used to be Verizon) I get the service unavailable. I’m at work and will try from home because I have DSL through ISP frontier communications also and will see if it works there.