On 06/14/2014 03:30 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 01:24:02PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: >> But anyway: don't disable IPv6 if you are lucky enough to have a VPN >> provider that can offer it to you. There's a reason why it is enabled >> by default on about everything these days. > > Oh, as a side note - I did see this problem myself in the past (which > turned out to be "user not having sufficient permission", not "IPv6 > disabled" in the end) and proposed to add a pushable option to make > "IPv6 can not be configured" a warning only, not a fatal error, see > here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/8527 > > ... the response was deafening silence, so I didn't do it. >
I'd like to see this function. > Now, it would certainly be helpful to understand what the real issue is > for you - "it does not work on some platforms" (without having fiddled > with the OS settings), or "if I manually disable IPv6, OpenVPN will not > come up" - and in the latter case, why you think it's necessary to turn > off IPv6. > > The developers are alway reluctant to add extra code to OpenVPN, as we > already have way too many strange options - so unless we truly understand > the issue (and it makes sense), we're not going to implement anything to > help it. > > gert > > PS: don't take the discussion off the list, please. This is very likely > to be intersting to more readers out there. Sorry about that, definitely my fault. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
