OpenVPN VS openvpn-gui

Compare OpenVPN vs openvpn-gui and see what are their differences.

OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon (by OpenVPN)

openvpn-gui

OpenVPN GUI is a graphical frontend for OpenVPN running on Windows 7 / 8 / 10. It creates an icon in the notification area from which you can control OpenVPN to start/stop your VPN tunnels, view the log and do other useful things. (by OpenVPN)
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OpenVPN openvpn-gui
81 4
9,945 1,353
2.7% 2.8%
9.2 6.9
7 days ago 8 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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OpenVPN

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenVPN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.

openvpn-gui

Posts with mentions or reviews of openvpn-gui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-30.
  • Is there an alternative Windows GUI client for OpenVPN other than OpenVPN GUI?
    1 project | /r/OpenVPN | 18 Jun 2023
    I use OpenVPN frequently for work and the OpenVPN GUI client since forever has an annoying bug (Which is that with Windows with multiple keyboards layouts, especially Arabic, upon connecting with OpenVPN the Windows language will switch to the second rtl language) that they don't plan to fix (check this and this).
  • gluetunvpn docker help
    2 projects | /r/unRAID | 30 Apr 2023
    It is likely an issue with the 'cipher' options, if any, that are in your ".opvn" file. This is telling you that the opvn setting is not finding a matching cipher it is allowed to use. The fix per the message would be to add the Servers cipher to your options. https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/381 https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/man-sections/cipher-negotiation.rst
  • Carrier-grade NAT and mobile IKEv2 issues
    1 project | /r/WatchGuard | 18 Aug 2022
    The big downside of the mobile SSL VPN solution (which is basically OpenVPN) is, you can not establish a vpn connection before the windows login. So Windows Group Policies are not applied immediatly and the user needs to manually connect to the VPN after the login. If OpenVPN would provide such a solution I would switch back to SSL VPN. There is still a feature request on Github since 2016 for this feature. See here: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/77
  • limitations of Openvpn CE?
    9 projects | /r/OpenVPN | 24 Jun 2022
    In addition we back several other open source projects, such as the OpenVPN GUI, OpenVPN for Android and OpenVPN 3 Linux ... these all provide various user interfaces on top of the OpenVPN Core component.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenVPN and openvpn-gui you can also consider the following projects:

tinc - a VPN daemon

ovpn-dco-win - OpenVPN Data Channel Offload driver for Windows

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server

openvpn3 - OpenVPN 3 is a C++ class library that implements the functionality of an OpenVPN client, and is protocol-compatible with the OpenVPN 2.x branch.

ocserv

ovpn-dco

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

openvpn3-linux

openvpn3-linux - OpenVPN 3 Linux client

tap-windows6 - Windows TAP driver (NDIS 6)

SoftEther - Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

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