Re: [Openvpn-devel] problem with beta3 and wintun

2020-09-10 Thread Marvin
wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:10:25AM -0700, Marvin Adeff wrote: > > Please allow me to back up a moment and restate this: > > As a matter of mailing list etiquette - could you please not post > this with > > Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix client's poor man NCP fallback

2020-09-10 Thread Marvin Adeff
. Do I need to NOT use the GUI to get wintun to work? Marvin > On Sep 9, 2020, at 9:56 PM, Selva Nair wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:19 AM Marvin wrote: >> Hi Selva, >> >>> The GUI did not have this error unless run as administrator w

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix client's poor man NCP fallback

2020-09-09 Thread Marvin
air wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:30 PM Marvin wrote: > >> Selva, >> >> Sorry for the wrong thread. I was replying to an earlier thread about >> this same error on Beta1 and beta2. So i am a bit confused by your >> statement that this error did

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix client's poor man NCP fallback

2020-09-09 Thread Marvin
Selva, Sorry for the wrong thread. I was replying to an earlier thread about this same error on Beta1 and beta2. So i am a bit confused by your statement that this error did not show up in earlier betas, because that's what started this thread. Marvin On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:14 PM Selva

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix client's poor man NCP fallback

2020-09-09 Thread Marvin
use openvpn from command line, you need to do SYSTEM elevation yourself (for example with psexec). 2020-09-09 16:23:20 us=991306 Exiting due to fatal error Marvin On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:13 AM Rafael Gava wrote: > Hi Gert, > > Glad that we could help! :-) > > If you guys need any

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] tun.c: enable using wintun driver under SYSTEM

2020-08-22 Thread Marvin Adeff
No need to rush. I’m happy to wait until Wednesday for beta2. Cheers, Marvin Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 22, 2020, at 12:20 AM, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:37:27PM -0700, Marvin Adeff wrote: >> When will this be available as a

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] tun.c: enable using wintun driver under SYSTEM

2020-08-21 Thread Marvin Adeff
Hi, When will this be available as an installable (beta) msi? Marvin > On Aug 21, 2020, at 2:13 PM, Selva Nair wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 3:08 AM Lev Stipakov wrote: >> From: Lev Stipakov >> >> Commit 6d19775a468 has removed SYST

Re: [Openvpn-devel] 2.5-beta-1 Wintun requires SYSTEM privileges

2020-08-18 Thread Marvin Adeff
. This can’t be right. At the least it should be set to dhcp by default with static IPs added later if necessary. Or am I doing something wrong? Marvin > On Aug 18, 2020, at 11:03 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:30:12PM -0300,

Re: [Openvpn-devel] 2.5-beta-1 Wintun requires SYSTEM privileges

2020-08-18 Thread Marvin Adeff
status and restarted OpenVPN if necessary. We never used the GUI. So we are watching how v2.5 develops to know how we will need to implement the new version. We are also very interested in seeing what speed improvements wintun will offer. I hope that is clearer. Marvin > On Aug 18, 2

Re: [Openvpn-devel] 2.5-beta-1 Wintun requires SYSTEM privileges

2020-08-18 Thread Marvin Adeff
Hi, > An additional check in openvpn.exe whether it's started as SYSTEM could be > useful as well, but less critical, IMO. Yes Please! We run 2500+ systems that run it this way as SYSTEM. Marvin ___ Openvpn-devel mailing list Op

Re: [Openvpn-devel] compatibility of 2.3 server with git master client

2020-07-13 Thread Marvin Adeff
Thank you I will try this. Marvin Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:34 AM, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 07:23:59AM -0700, Marvin Adeff wrote: >> I???m wondering if the opposite of this scenario has been tested, where the >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] git master crashes on connect of 2.3 client with --enable-small

2020-07-13 Thread Marvin Adeff
past Linux 2.6, and I don’t think 2.4.x can run on Linux 2.6. Marvin Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 13, 2020, at 1:57 AM, Arne Schwabe wrote: > >> Am 13.07.20 um 08:58 schrieb Gert Doering: >> Hi, >> >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 08:33:03AM +0200, Gert Doering

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Setting adapter mtu on windows systems

2019-03-28 Thread Marvin Adeff
these cases we have to manually set mtu to a setting that most likely is much lower than OpenVPN might sense it as. Marvin > On Mar 28, 2019, at 8:00 AM, Selva Nair wrote: > > Hi > >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 9:13 AM Arne Schwabe wrote: >> Am 28.03.19 um 13:27 sc

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Minimum Linux Version for OpenVPN 2.4.x

2018-05-23 Thread Marvin Adeff
we can go in OpenVPN version in the interim while we plan our overall system upgrade (it is currently at 2.3.4 with OpenSSL 1.01h and lzo 2.02). Thanks again all! I really appreciate your attention. Best, Marvin > On May 23, 2018, at 3:25 AM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > > Hi, >

[Openvpn-devel] Minimum Linux Version for OpenVPN 2.4.x

2018-05-22 Thread Marvin
Can someone tell me the minimum Linux version that OpenVPN 2.4.x will build and run on? We have an older appliance the runs on an older 2.4.31 kernel (cannot be upgraded -- but it's very hardened so really doesn't need to be for our use.) Thank y

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Marvin
re TAP-Win32, we will try it out as soon as the binary is released. Best, Marvin On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:24:18AM -0700, Marvin wrote: > > Only that here we need to run Gava's patches for active-ftp and

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Marvin
HI Gert, Only that here we need to run Gava's patches for active-ftp and client-nat (submitted to openvpn-dev several years ago but not accepted). He has not had time to port those patches to 2.4.x yet. So for now we are stuck at 2.3.18. Marvin On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Gert Do

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Marvin
Hi Guys, Would there be any problem with updating the tap-windows6 to the Viscosity patched version on an older openvpn build (e.g. 2.3.18 on Windows 10)? Thanks, Marvin On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Eric Thorpe wrote: > Hi Gert, > > PR #47 has been submitted to tap-windows6

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Depreciate IPv4-related options.

2018-04-01 Thread Marvin Adeff
Antonio, I certainly don’t disagree with you. However I think I’ve taken up enough bandwidth over this topic on Openvpn-devel. Thank you all. Marvin > On Apr 1, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > >> On 02/04/18 10:12, Marvin Adeff wrote: >> Even on the internet

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Depreciate IPv4-related options.

2018-04-01 Thread Marvin Adeff
country, ISP etc. Very useful for security ACLs etc. Unless I’m completely mistaken, I don’t believe this is easily done in ipv6. BTW, a big thank-you to you and all the devs in the OpenVPN project! Marvin > On Apr 1, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Sun,

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Depreciate IPv4-related options.

2018-04-01 Thread Marvin Adeff
with those legacy customer devices are also not ipv6 capable. So if OpenVPN lost ipv4 support anytime soon, we would be in a world of hurt. There is much more detail about all this, but I wanted to keep this a short email. Thanks for listening. Marvin > On Apr 1, 2018, at 11:39 AM, G

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Depreciate IPv4-related options.

2018-04-01 Thread Marvin Adeff
Think of us poor mail list lurkers. Practically gave this one a heart attack! Not having seen that private reply, I hope that means I can discard the long-ass (and quite irate) reply I was working on? Marvin (Sent from an ipv4 address) > On Apr 1, 2018, at 8:52 AM, Jonathan K. Bullard wr

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] options: allow setting default --ca argument value

2017-01-15 Thread Marvin Adeff
A User's Perspective: We've been doing just this since ovpn began allowing inline certs. Works great! Recommend. Marvin Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 15, 2017, at 9:53 AM, David Sommerseth > wrote: > >> On 15/01/17 14:52, Pavel Raiskup wrote: >>> On Sunday

Re: [Openvpn-devel] launch openvpn-gui at windows startup

2016-11-25 Thread Marvin
th the 2.4+ installer. On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Илья Шипицин wrote: > > > 2016-11-22 0:56 GMT+05:00 Marvin Adeff : > >> Hi, >> >> Power User Perspective: >> Please ensure that these [X] selections can be controlled (as in >> "disabled") if

Re: [Openvpn-devel] launch openvpn-gui at windows startup

2016-11-25 Thread Marvin Adeff
How about a "preferences" file in %Users%\AppData...? The installer would apply whatever basic choices during install (%defaultUser%\AppData). Then a user could set his personal preferences which WinGUI would save to %Users%\AppData. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 25, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Selva N

Re: [Openvpn-devel] launch openvpn-gui at windows startup

2016-11-21 Thread Marvin Adeff
Hi, Power User Perspective: Please ensure that these [X] selections can be controlled (as in "disabled") if openvpn is installed by command line (quiet mode). Thanks, Marvin Adeff > On Nov 21, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Tue, Nov

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] systemd: Improve the systemd unit files

2016-11-14 Thread Marvin
failure is some network change or blockage at the remote site -- but it is not always so. For us, having it continue to retry is important for troubleshooting, even if it is our fault because we did something stupid such as configuration errors (e.g. typos in the .ovpn etc.) Hope this hel

Re: [Openvpn-devel] p2p topology on Windows

2016-09-23 Thread Marvin Adeff
I may be wrong, but this sounds suspiciously like what we use Gava's client-nat patch for. To enable us to NAT the device's local IP to the one assigned dynamically by openvpn (dhcp). Marvin Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 23, 2016, at 4:21 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: > >&

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Added two features to Network Address Translator

2015-08-27 Thread Marvin
proprietary software that we have no control over. I dare say we have long and vast experience with both. Both work quite well. The Windows box version with OpenVPN and Gava's patches have proven themselves to work well and are quite stable. Marvin On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Gert Doering

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Added two features to Network Address Translator

2015-08-26 Thread Marvin
complex. We have been running 3000 devices since Feb 2015 with no issues. Please also consider this a pre-testing report. Marvin Signed-off-by: Rafael Gava de Oliveira Acked by: Marvin Adeff >Hi JJK, > >"client-ip" instead of "localhost" sounds good to me. &g