On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:39:15 Jason Dixon wrote:
> 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.
The idea is that you pre-create tun device (possibly in startup script,
or in /etc/rc.local) and then OpenVPN uses it.
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Best wishes,
Vadim Zhukov
A: Because it messes up the way people read text.
Q: Why is a top-posting such a bad thing?
