Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Add --route-pre-down/OPENVPN_PLUGIN_ROUTE_PREDOWN script/plug-in hook

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:08:42AM -0500, Jonathan K. Bullard wrote:
> This is great. Two comments:
> 
> 1. Is the man page (i.e., the page shown at
> http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/manuals/openvpn-22.html)
> part of the source code repository? 

It is...

> If so, shouldn't patches that
> change the interface include appropriate changes to the man page? 

... and so does the patch.  At least my copy of it had a section starting
with

diff --git a/openvpn.8 b/openvpn.8
index 4a86ce7..a6d7567 100644

> 2. Can this be used to release a DHCP lease? That would be wonderful!

Sure, just add a script that signals the dhcp client...

gert
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Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (19th Jan 2012)

[Jan Just Keijser]

Hi all,


Samuli Seppänen wrote:

Hi,

Here's the summary of the previous IRC meeting / sprint.

  
I've been offline for a while but am slowly getting back online ; as for 
the chatlog attachment: Gert did ask me about bug #97 (dhcpnak storm) ; 
I have not been able to reproduce the DHCP NAK storm with the openvpn 
2.2.2. tap-win32 adapter , so I'm inclined to consider this bug solved. 
I hope someone else can also verify this (i.e. install 2.2.1, produce 
the DHCP NAK storm, then upgrade to 2.2.2. etc).


cheers,

JJK

PS I'm intending to go to FOSDEM on sunday; which room will you guys 
meet in?




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COMMUNITY MEETING

Place: #openvpn-devel on irc.freenode.net
Date: Thursday 19th Jan 2012
Time: 18:00 UTC

Planned meeting topics for this meeting were on this page:



Next meeting will be announced in advance, but will probably be on the same
weekday and at the same time. Your local meeting time is easy to check
from services such as



or with

$ date -u


SUMMARY

cron2, dazo, ecrist and mattock participated in this meeting.

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Discussed Bruessels/FOSDEM hackfests. Agreed that arranging them on
Sat-Sun (4.-5. Feb) makes most sense for all. The goal is to complete
three related mini-projects:

1) The "squash/close as many bugs as possible"
2) Complete all tasks holding back 2.3 alpha and make the release
3) Review d12fk's Windows patches that got stuck to the patch queue

All of these should be doable within the given timeframe.

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Discussed vBulletin's OpenVPN theme. According to raidz, the theme
should be ready next Monday.

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Full chatlog as an attachment
  

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Add --route-pre-down/OPENVPN_PLUGIN_ROUTE_PREDOWN script/plug-in hook

[Jonathan K. Bullard]

Hi.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:38 AM, David Sommerseth  wrote:
>
> This patchs adds a script/plug-in hook which is called right before the
> network routes are taken down.  This is give external processes a
> possibility to tear down communication over the VPN before the VPN
> disappears.
>
> One use case can be to mount a networked file system over the VPN via
> --route-up.  And then to unmount this file system via --route-pre-down


This is great. Two comments:

1. Is the man page (i.e., the page shown at
http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/manuals/openvpn-22.html)
part of the source code repository? If so, shouldn't patches that
change the interface include appropriate changes to the man page? If
not, wouldn't that be a good idea?

2. Can this be used to release a DHCP lease? That would be wonderful!

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Add --route-pre-down/OPENVPN_PLUGIN_ROUTE_PREDOWN script/plug-in hook

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:38:50PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote:
> This patchs adds a script/plug-in hook which is called right before the
> network routes are taken down.  This is give external processes a
> possibility to tear down communication over the VPN before the VPN
> disappears.
> 
> One use case can be to mount a networked file system over the VPN via
> --route-up.  And then to unmount this file system via --route-pre-down

I can see the use case :-) - and the code looks straightforward to me,
so ACK ("I assume that you have an automated test module for that"... :) )

gert
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