On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:48:06PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2009 19:20:43 Jason Dixon wrote: > > So apparently OpenVPN is a douche of an application by > > destroying/recreating any tun devices you ask it to bind to. This > > causes havoc with pf/altq if you queue on those tun interfaces. > > > > I've asked on the openvpn-users mailing list if there's any way to > > have OpenVPN avoid teardown of an existing tun(4) interface but nobody > > had any useful answers (besides "use the up/down scripts")... yeah, > > thanks. Has anyone here used OpenVPN in server mode and overcome this? > > See "persist-tun" option.
This only affects restarts, not the initial startup. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/