Figure out how to get SUSE VPN running on Android.
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about 11 years ago by sndirsch | Reply
With an udpated set of config files I received from infra@suse.de openvpn now works on sle12.
I noticed massive changes in SUSE.conf.NUE, SUSE/SUSE-sndirsch.crt and SUSE/SUSE-sndirsch.key since 2008. Also it seems SUSE/SUSE-ca.crt became ta.key (but changed as well). SUSE/SUSETrustRoot.crt is completely new.
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about 11 years ago by e_bischoff | Reply
What about getting SUSE VPN to work with IPv6 ? It probably needs some server-side fixes too.
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about 11 years ago by sndirsch | Reply
Received a hint to try "OpenVPN for Android" by Arne Schwabe. It's an opensource client based on the OpenVPN project. It's capable of using a regular openvpn config file as input. And it nearly works from the beginnning with the config file we're using for SUSE. Only thing I needed to comment out were the "" lines and adjust the path of the certification/key files and up/down scripts.
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