Re: [Openvpn-devel] Erratic TCP Throughput

2010-03-05 Thread Jan Just Keijser
open...@rkmorris.us wrote: Hi, This is more my bet, because my question wasn't very clear ... I require a proxy server during "normal" operation, but for this data throughput test I had no proxy server, rather a "direct" connection. without config files it's impossible to tell - is

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Openvpn 2.1.1 bad tcp performance but good pingwhen -l 1472 (with packet size = MTU)

2010-03-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> because i really believe in open source software I've decided to check > all sorts of configurations to check problems with tcp tunneling. This makes it sound like OpenVPN's performance is lower than some comparable non-Free software. Have you actually compared OpenVPN's performance to some

Re: [Openvpn-devel] special-case code for OpenBSD - advice needed

2010-03-05 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:52:53AM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > open() first will exclusively lock it for you... > > From OpenBSD's tun(4) man page: > > Each device has the exclusive open property; it cannot be > opened if it is > already open and in use by another

Re: [Openvpn-devel] special-case code for OpenBSD - advice needed

2010-03-05 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/05/2010 10:39:26 AM, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:44:28AM +0100, Heiko Hund wrote: > > On Friday 05 March 2010 10:11:51 Gert Doering wrote: > > > What happened exactly? Could you ask your colleague for a log > file? > > > > Well, he couldn't ping any remote

Re: [Openvpn-devel] special-case code for OpenBSD - advice needed

2010-03-05 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:44:28AM +0100, Heiko Hund wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 10:11:51 Gert Doering wrote: > > What happened exactly? Could you ask your colleague for a log file? > > Well, he couldn't ping any remote host. Nothing special in the log, really. > If > it isn't

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Openvpn 2.1.1 bad tcp performance but good pingwhen -l 1472 (with packet size = MTU)

2010-03-05 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:42 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:01 +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:21:43PM -0600, open...@rkmorris.us wrote: > > > I did this in the client configuration file ... is this right? > > > I checked the

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Openvpn 2.1.1 bad tcp performance but good pingwhen -l 1472 (with packet size = MTU)

2010-03-05 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:01 +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:21:43PM -0600, open...@rkmorris.us wrote: > > I did this in the client configuration file ... is this right? > > I checked the OpenVPN web site, and it may be that I need this on > > the server side

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Openvpn 2.1.1 bad tcp performance but good pingwhen -l 1472 (with packet size = MTU)

2010-03-05 Thread openvpn
Hi, OK, I tried this (on both ends!), but no joy unfortunately ... :-( It almost seemed like overall data throughput was lower, but the throughput results bounce around so much that it's hard to really conclude this or not. I'm not sure if attachments make it through to this mailing list

[Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (4th Mar 2010)

2010-03-05 Thread Samuli Seppänen
Hi, Here's the summary of the previous community meeting. --- COMMUNITY MEETING Place: #openvpn-discussion on irc.freenode.net List-Post: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, 4th March 2010 Time: 18:00 UTC Planned meeting topics for this meeting were on this page:

Re: [Openvpn-devel] special-case code for OpenBSD - advice needed

2010-03-05 Thread Heiko Hund
Hi Gert, On Friday 05 March 2010 10:11:51 Gert Doering wrote: > What happened exactly? Could you ask your colleague for a log file? Well, he couldn't ping any remote host. Nothing special in the log, really. If it isn't misleading it's quite obvious that the ordering is wrong: TUN/TAP

Re: [Openvpn-devel] special-case code for OpenBSD - advice needed

2010-03-05 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:42:23AM +0100, Heiko Hund wrote: > On Sunday 28 February 2010 15:50:01 Gert Doering wrote: > > Now, for all operatings systems *except* Win32 and OpenBSD, the sequence > > of execution is > > > > open_tun() > > do_ifconfig() > > That seems to make sense for

Re: [Openvpn-devel] special-case code for OpenBSD - advice needed

2010-03-05 Thread Heiko Hund
Hi Gert, On Sunday 28 February 2010 15:50:01 Gert Doering wrote: > Now, for all operatings systems *except* Win32 and OpenBSD, the sequence > of execution is > > open_tun() > do_ifconfig() That seems to make sense for OpenBSD. I just had a colleague (kudos Moritz) try to connect with

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Openvpn 2.1.1 bad tcp performance but good pingwhen -l 1472 (with packet size = MTU)

2010-03-05 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:21:43PM -0600, open...@rkmorris.us wrote: > I did this in the client configuration file ... is this right? > I checked the OpenVPN web site, and it may be that I need this on > the server side instead. Please clarify and I'll try it again (if > I need to).