[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN commercial license?

Discussion:

R J Thompson

2006-10-04 09:30:14 UTC

Hello

We are a small firm looking to incorporate OpenVPN into our network
appliance, the appliance is basically a web frontend to manage multiple
open source networking tools including OpenVPN.

As we are looking to sell commercially, do we need to purchase a
commercial license for OpenVPN, if so, how and where would we find the
pricing etc..?

We are not making any changes to the OpenVPN code itself, we just use
the software and it is managed by our own we frontend.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Richard

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Janne Johansson

2006-10-04 09:55:16 UTC

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As long as you put the OpenVPN source somewhere along the distribution in
some form (unperverted)
then you can sell it for as much as you like. Since you aren't doing any
modifications to it, there really
shouldn't be any harm for your business to include the sources you used to
build openvpn since they already
are available from other sources.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html#HighOrLowFeesAndGPL

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R J Thompson

2006-10-04 10:41:43 UTC

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Ok, thanks

We just want to know where we stand on the issue.

Regards

Richard

Post by R J Thompson
Hello
We are a small firm looking to incorporate OpenVPN into our network
appliance, the appliance is basically a web frontend to manage multiple
open source networking tools including OpenVPN.
As we are looking to sell commercially, do we need to purchase a
commercial license for OpenVPN, if so, how and where would we find the
pricing etc..?
We are not making any changes to the OpenVPN code itself, we just use
the software and it is managed by our own we frontend.
Any help is appreciated.
As long as you put the OpenVPN source somewhere along the distribution
in some form (unperverted)
then you can sell it for as much as you like. Since you aren't doing any
modifications to it, there really
shouldn't be any harm for your business to include the sources you used
to build openvpn since they already
are available from other sources.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html#HighOrLowFeesAndGPL
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RETP Solutions Ltd

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web: http://www.retp.net
tel: 0871 5043054

Jim Drash

2006-10-04 19:59:33 UTC

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You need to read the license from the OpenVPN web site:
http://openvpn.net/license.html. It is spelled out there not as a
response in a mailing list.

Post by R J Thompson
Ok, thanks
We just want to know where we stand on the issue.
Regards
Richard

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RETP Solutions Ltd
web: http://www.retp.net
tel: 0871 5043054
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Bruno Cruvelier

2006-10-04 12:05:58 UTC

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Hi,

I have a little problem,

I have a VPN connection with a Windows client (XP and OpenVPN Gui) and a
Linux server (Debian).
It works great but sometimes, when I try to get a file (> 1MB) from the
distant network, I lost the connection. The strange things is that the
connection is still alive for OpenVPN Gui (green computer icon on the tasks
bar) but I can't go anywhere on the distant network (ping, file sharing,
http...). The logs doesn't show anything anormal because it's still
connected for him.

Did one of you already get this kind of error ?

Here are the configurations I'm using :
-----------
CLIENT SIDE
-----------
remote 213.XX.XX.XX
client
port 8192
dev tun
ca C:\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\autorite-ca.crt
cert C:\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\client.crt
key C:\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\client.key
auth-user-pass
reneg-sec 3600
ping 10
comp-lzo
verb 5
ip-win32 dynamic
dhcp-option DOMAIN XX
dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1

-----------
SERVER SIDE
-----------
dev tun1
local 213.XX.XX.XX
float
client-config-dir /etc/openvpn/cert/fixed-ip
port 8192
proto udp
server 10.4.0.0 255.255.0.0
duplicate-cn
status /var/log/vpn_status 60
dh /etc/ssl/dh1024.pem
ca /etc/ssl/certs/autorite-ca.crt
cert /etc/ssl/server.crt
key /etc/ssl/private/serverPrivate.key
tun-mtu 1500
mssfix
auth-user-pass-verify /etc/openvpn/validateUser.sh via-file
comp-lzo
verb 5
log /var/log/openvpn.log
keepalive 10 240
push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0"
persist-key
persist-tun
persist-local-ip

Christoph Haas

2006-10-04 19:20:20 UTC

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Post by Bruno Cruvelier
I have a VPN connection with a Windows client (XP and OpenVPN Gui) and a
Linux server (Debian).
It works great but sometimes, when I try to get a file (> 1MB) from the
distant network, I lost the connection. The strange things is that the
connection is still alive for OpenVPN Gui (green computer icon on the
tasks bar) but I can't go anywhere on the distant network (ping, file
sharing, http...). The logs doesn't show anything anormal because it's
still connected for him.
Did one of you already get this kind of error ?

Sounds like MTU/fragmentation problems. Do you drop packet fragments at
your firewall? Read about the "fragment" and "mssfix" options. Also look
at your network traffic (ethereal/wireshark on Debian, Packetyzer on
Windows) and look for retransmissions. Does it work better if you lower
the MTU?

Can you ping/traceroute/mtr through the tunnel when the problem occurs?

Christoph

Bruno Cruvelier

2006-10-05 07:08:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Connection still alive but not working

Post by Christoph Haas

The firewall allows everything from the tunnel.
I've read about these options.
I've tried to put the mtu to 1492.

I have to wait for some returns to see if it works.

Post by Christoph Haas
Can you ping/traceroute/mtr through the tunnel when the problem occurs?

I'll ask the client about it.

Thx for all your advice.

Post by Christoph Haas
Christoph
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