[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux v23 released

2024-09-05 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
8, 9 - Ubuntu: 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 Installation and getting started instructions can be found here: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPN3Linux> Debian 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Ubuntu 23.10 are EOL and is no longer supported. -- kind

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to continue operation with comp-lzo and/or migrate from it?

2024-07-01 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
s an option only needed to be used on the server side. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux v22_dev released

2024-06-20 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
Enterprise Linux 7 and Ubuntu 23.10 will go EOL in just a few days or weeks and will no longer be supported. [3] Fedora Copr development snapshots: <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn3-devsnapshots/> -- kind regards

Re: [Openvpn-users] Failed to reload openvpn.service: Job type reload is not applicable for unit openvpn.service.

2024-02-26 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
the openvpn@CONFIG.service approach is also deprecated by the community - as it does not behave identical across Linux distributions. Please migrate to use the openvpn-server@CONFIG.service and openvpn-client@CONFIG.service unit files. They will in most cases behave better. -- kind regards, David

Re: [Openvpn-users] Request for feedback: Unbundling easy-rsa on Windows

2024-02-19 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
be fine to install it separately, but not part of the OpenVPN install? -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Can a configuration item be cleared in the server.conf file

2024-02-06 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
--log option in OpenVPN should be avoided. It has poorer performance, you need to do log rotation manually (requiring the openvpn to get reloaded, which interrupts tunnel) and without a quite powerful log query tool. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc

Re: [Openvpn-users] Can a configuration item be cleared in the server.conf file

2024-02-06 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
based repositories: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos#DebianUbuntu:UsingOpenVPNaptrepositories> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforg

Re: [Openvpn-users] Two questions about key generation for clients

2024-01-22 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
completely override the unit file shipped with the OpenVPN package. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Are my configurations secure enough?

2024-01-09 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
quot;route 172.20.0.0 255.255.255.0" topology subnet ​ keepalive 10 120 tls-crypt /etc/openvpn/server/ta.key 0 Wrong usage of tls-crypt. Read the man page, please. ​ cipher AES-256-GCM data-ciphers AES-256-GCM These two lines are not needed with OpenVPN 2.6. -- kin

Re: [Openvpn-users] I have a question about Easy-RSA

2024-01-07 Thread David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users
cture. Clients and servers enrolled into such a centralized CA infrastructure will get the CA certificates updated automatically as well. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.s

Re: [Openvpn-users] Remote DNS server

2023-12-11 Thread David Sommerseth
-- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc Hello, Thank you so much. Do you mean the below lines for "server.conf": OpenVPN 2.5    ==> push "dhcp-option DNS IP" OpenVPN 2.6    ==> dns IP ? I'm pretty sure I said: >> you can push both --dns an

Re: [Openvpn-users] Remote DNS server

2023-12-06 Thread David Sommerseth
ut-of-the-box and will require additional script hooks to be enabled (the exception is when starting VPN sessions via NetworkManager). Hosts running OpenVPN 3 Linux will get DNS setup out-of-the-box, and that should support the --dns option as well. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVP

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Plugins and Systemd

2023-11-29 Thread David Sommerseth
with OpenVPN 2.4, which added better systemd integration so systemd could better understand in which runtime status the OpenVPN process has. And it adds a lot of hardening, depending on the use case (client or server config). Can you please try and see if that works better? -- kind regards, D

Re: [Openvpn-users] --user specified but lacking CAP_SETPCAP

2023-10-29 Thread David Sommerseth
ge -server with -client if it's a client config in play. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] --user specified but lacking CAP_SETPCAP

2023-10-27 Thread David Sommerseth
On 26/10/2023 18:22, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:04:18AM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: When starting OpenVPN via the openvpn-client@.service or openvpn-server@.service systemd unit files, some capabilities are granted to the the OpenVPN process may transition to, like

Re: [Openvpn-users] --user specified but lacking CAP_SETPCAP

2023-10-26 Thread David Sommerseth
send that traffic to/from the local virtual interface. [0] <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPN3Linux> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourc

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux v21 released

2023-10-26 Thread David Sommerseth
d here: <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux/issues/193> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc Source tarballs --- * OpenVPN 3 Linux v21 <https://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/openvpn3-linux-21.tar.xz

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to set a fixed IP to a client?

2023-09-03 Thread David Sommerseth
Take this as strong warning. Enough is enough. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Using username/password authentication

2023-09-01 Thread David Sommerseth
ask more questions. Please do your homework and do some googling and reading first. The terminologies used here are industry standard. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openv

Re: [Openvpn-users] Revoke a certificate and reuse it

2023-08-30 Thread David Sommerseth
(Common Name) field in each connecting client certificate is unique per client. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Openvpn-users] Using username/password authentication

2023-08-30 Thread David Sommerseth
depends entirely on your own security needs. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Protocol options: explicit-exit-notify 1, protocol-flags cc-exit tls-ekm dyn-tls-crypt

2023-08-29 Thread David Sommerseth
ook-second-edition/9781786463128> <https://www.packtpub.com/product/mastering-openvpn/9781783553136> <https://www.packtpub.com/product/troubleshooting-openvpn/9781786461964> Those books are written by trusted OpenVPN community members, so buying these books supports them. -- ki

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to use ccd-exclusive statement?

2023-08-16 Thread David Sommerseth
t; not a random blog post) <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN stopped working after upgrade from 2.5.6 to 2.6.3

2023-08-14 Thread David Sommerseth
ease/> [2] <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release-2.6/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Hardening an OpenVPN server

2023-08-11 Thread David Sommerseth
twork cable" between the VPN server and client. How you treat the traffic coming out or going into that cable is up to the host this "cable" is "plugged" into. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Ope

Re: [Openvpn-users] A question about the VPN providers

2023-08-04 Thread David Sommerseth
wild west market segment (especially on the consumer VPN service side). -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn 2.6.5 RPM from Fedora Copr and data-ciphers patch

2023-06-19 Thread David Sommerseth
mainline Fedora repos). Fedora Copr repo for OpenVPN 2.6 will be kept in sync as well. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux v20 released

2023-03-20 Thread David Sommerseth
dback through various channels through all these releases. You have all been important in ensuring this project has evolved and matured. I'm sorry I don't have a proper list of all you, but you would also deserve to be mentioned. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth Ope

Re: [Openvpn-users] easy-rsa in docker

2023-03-20 Thread David Sommerseth
nstall the openssl package, and the 'easyrsa init-pki' kicked off without issues. But I'm really curious why you find it valuable to dockerize Easy-RSA. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to check if OpenVPN server is working properly?

2023-02-25 Thread David Sommerseth
On 25/02/2023 16:36, Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:34:11 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: Yes, you can issue new certificates using *the same* private and public keys (essentially re-using the CSR). This will issue a new certificate with a new expiry date. Since the certificate

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to check if OpenVPN server is working properly?

2023-02-25 Thread David Sommerseth
ify this information before signing it. The only thing the CA cannot change, is the public key attached to the CSR. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sou

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to check if OpenVPN server is working properly?

2023-02-23 Thread David Sommerseth
l not happen on Oct 24, 2027? Yes, you can issue new certificates using *the same* private and public keys (essentially re-using the CSR). This will issue a new certificate with a new expiry date. Since the certificate and CA is the same, it just works as before. -- kin

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to check if OpenVPN server is working properly?

2023-02-23 Thread David Sommerseth
*3600)) -in $CERT_FILE if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then # Certificate is expiring echo "** EXPIRING ** Certificate dates (current): " openssl x509 -noout -dates -in $CERF_FILE fi This will check if the certificate will expire in less than

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to check if OpenVPN server is working properly?

2023-02-23 Thread David Sommerseth
ld recommend to remove them. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.5.9 released

2023-02-20 Thread David Sommerseth
nel module in this repository. Further information can be found here: <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn3/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourc

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.6.0 released

2023-01-26 Thread David Sommerseth
A new repository for OpenVPN 2.6 has been published: <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release-2.6/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourcefor

Re: [Openvpn-users] 2.6rc2 client & DCO: down script fails since tun0 is already gone

2023-01-19 Thread David Sommerseth
TCP/UDP and TUN/TAP close. So this is probably as expected. You could use --route-pre-down, to run scripts requiring the VPN interface to be available. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description:

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v19 beta released

2022-10-31 Thread David Sommerseth
n selected Debian and Ubuntu releases are currently considered a tech-preview. We would like to get feedback from arm64 users how OpenVPN 3 Linux works here, then we can remove the tech-preview label for arm64. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc Source tarballs ---

Re: [Openvpn-users] Checking server and client certificates expiration?

2022-09-28 Thread David Sommerseth
n file.crt || echo "NEED RENEWAL" -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Commanding remote client to reconnect following server reboot?

2022-09-08 Thread David Sommerseth
also charge extra for IPV6. If so, tunnelbroker.net can work reasonably okay. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn

Re: [Openvpn-users] Commanding remote client to reconnect following server reboot?

2022-09-06 Thread David Sommerseth
On 06/09/2022 16:48, Bo Berglund wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 16:00:20 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: On 06/09/2022 15:42, Bo Berglund wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 15:23:29 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: On 06/09/2022 10:14, Bo Berglund wrote: 2. Find a way to push the blocking of persist-tun

Re: [Openvpn-users] Commanding remote client to reconnect following server reboot?

2022-09-06 Thread David Sommerseth
On 06/09/2022 15:42, Bo Berglund wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 15:23:29 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: On 06/09/2022 10:14, Bo Berglund wrote: 2. Find a way to push the blocking of persist-tun via a ccd command for this client only. But it might not be possible if the persisted tun is in

Re: [Openvpn-users] Commanding remote client to reconnect following server reboot?

2022-09-06 Thread David Sommerseth
. This is only possible to set in the local configuration file. Long story short: It's related to when this option is parsed; which is before it starts to connect to the remote server. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Op

Re: [Openvpn-users] auth-token behaviour change in v2.5.0

2022-06-30 Thread David Sommerseth
8.html> Which version of OpenVPN are your clients running? -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to enable timestamps in server logfile?

2022-06-23 Thread David Sommerseth
On 22/06/2022 22:03, Bo Berglund wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:58:35 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: [...snip...] I see you get a recommendation to remove '--suppress-timestamp'. That is only useful if you decide to use --log. If you let the journal do that job, it will already p

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to enable timestamps in server logfile?

2022-06-22 Thread David Sommerseth
t - which Ubuntu picks up. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to enable timestamps in server logfile?

2022-06-22 Thread David Sommerseth
start openvpn service to make it "take": sudo systemctl restart openvpn-server@server sudo systemctl restart openvpn-server@serverlocal Correct. Or is it: sudo systemctl restart openvpn-server There exists no 'openvpn-server.service' unit, so this will fail. Only the

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to enable timestamps in server logfile?

2022-06-22 Thread David Sommerseth
On 18/06/2022 10:26, Bo Berglund wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:58:46 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: [...snip...] But will journalctl work independently of the openvpn log option settings, like verbosity etc? I have this now in the two instance conf files: log /etc/openvpn/log/openvpn.log

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to enable timestamps in server logfile?

2022-06-15 Thread David Sommerseth
of openvpn@*.service and openvpn.service unit files. When you only use the openvpn-client@.service and openvpn-server@.client, you will have an environment which will be easier to debug and troubleshoot. I mention this as I saw the "openvpn@server.service" unit was listed as "fai

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v18 beta released

2022-06-07 Thread David Sommerseth
ort on selected Debian and Ubuntu releases are considered a tech-preview. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc Source tarballs --- * OpenVPN 3 Linux v18 beta <https://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/openvpn3-li

Re: [Openvpn-users] Can I script access of an OpenVPN client on/off?

2022-05-30 Thread David Sommerseth
On 18/05/2022 11:59, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: On 16. May 2022, at 19:49, David Sommerseth <mailto:open...@sf.lists.topphemmelig.net>> wrote: I still recommend you to have a look at OpenVPN Cloud and the split-tunnel support based on domain names feature. How does that wor

Re: [Openvpn-users] Can I script access of an OpenVPN client on/off?

2022-05-16 Thread David Sommerseth
On 14/05/2022 00:32, Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2022 17:26:16 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: What kind of firmware is on the device? Does it have a web UI? That could probably be simpler than an SSH login. I found out that the router in this case is too simple (low end) so it does

Re: [Openvpn-users] Can I script access of an OpenVPN client on/off?

2022-05-13 Thread David Sommerseth
outes goes via a VPN connector. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Request .deb package of OpenVPN 2.5.6

2022-03-24 Thread David Sommerseth
st "rpm -q --changelog openvpn" you would find: * Thu Jan 27 2022 David Sommerseth - 2.5.5-3 - Fix systemd related scriptlet error (#1887984) That number in parentheses points at the Red Hat Bugzilla ticket: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1887984> [...snip...] The .deb pack

Re: [Openvpn-users] Request .deb package of OpenVPN 2.5.6

2022-03-23 Thread David Sommerseth
echnical reasons for that. Would you like to elaborate what those "esoteric technical reasons" are with regards to building the .deb package? Are the "esoteric technical reasons" confined to Debian only? I ask because David Sommerseth produced the openvpn package, version 2.5

Re: [Openvpn-users] Check how openvpn was installed on Ubuntu?

2022-02-09 Thread David Sommerseth
les. If it doesn't complain about anything in the configuration file itself, it will in most cases work just fine. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Start OpenVPN client in background, it's possible?

2022-02-02 Thread David Sommerseth
back to OpenVPN. If no console is available at that point, it should be possible to complete this later by manually running systemd-tty-ask-password-agent in a console. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to modify old OpenVPN installation to new way of operation?

2022-01-19 Thread David Sommerseth
On 19/01/2022 19:27, Bo Berglund wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:24:20 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: What are these *.slice items??? The best answer is found in: man 5 systemd.slice There is a lot of man pages for systemd, and it is all kept up-to-date and answers almost everything

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to modify old OpenVPN installation to new way of operation?

2022-01-19 Thread David Sommerseth
On 18/01/2022 15:21, Bo Berglund wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:58:02 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: On 17/01/2022 23:37, Bo Berglund wrote: [..snip...] I have two server instances running with and without Internet routing from conf files server.conf and serverlocal.conf. I want to change

Re: [Openvpn-users] How to modify old OpenVPN installation to new way of operation?

2022-01-18 Thread David Sommerseth
easy to check by running: systemctl status openvpn.service openvpn@*.service You can also ensure they are all stopped and disabled in a similar way as enabling services: systemctl disable --now openvpn.service openvpn@*.service -- kin

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v17 beta released

2021-12-14 Thread David Sommerseth
.04, 20.04 and 21.04 (amd64, arm64) - Ubuntu 21.10 (amd64, arm64) is available for testing The arm64 support on selected Debian and Ubuntu releases are currently considered a tech-preview. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc

Re: [Openvpn-users] Linux client DNS resolver - does it even work?

2021-11-15 Thread David Sommerseth
on its own, even if gateways changes. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Linux client DNS resolver - does it even work?

2021-11-15 Thread David Sommerseth
l appreciate. many thanks, L. Have you tried OpenVPN 3 Linux? That does DNS seutp out-of-the-box. With the Fedora builds it also integrates natively with systemd-resolved. <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPN3Linux> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc Ope

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v16 beta released

2021-10-20 Thread David Sommerseth
4 and 21.04 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 We have not yet had any chances to test DCO on Debian 11 yet. Ubuntu 21.10 will also get ovpn-dco packages. This work will be part of the next release. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc Source tarballs -

Re: [Openvpn-users] Unable to locate the .deb package of OpenVPN 2.5.4 for Debian 11/Bullseye

2021-10-17 Thread David Sommerseth
regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Unable to locate the .deb package of OpenVPN 2.5.4 for Debian 11/Bullseye

2021-10-13 Thread David Sommerseth
= Major version (feature releases) Z = Minor version (bug/security fixes) -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Unable to locate the .deb package of OpenVPN 2.5.4 for Debian 11/Bullseye

2021-10-13 Thread David Sommerseth
nity provided repository, using the standard distro repository might be more than good enough. On the other hand, it might take a bit longer for a distribution repository to get an updated package compared to using the community provided packages. That's the quicker introduction to thi

Re: [Openvpn-users] On-demand OVPN connection from Windows 10?

2021-09-21 Thread David Sommerseth
to? If so I cannot find it, I entered the "--connect-retry-max" string in the Ctrl-F box in Firefox but there was no hit. Pretty sure he meant the man-page of OpenVPN 2.5 <https://build.openvpn.net/man/openvpn-2.5/openvpn.8.html> -- kind regards, Da

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v15 beta released

2021-07-14 Thread David Sommerseth
Linux 8 Remember to update the kmod-ovpn-dco package to the latest available version. Instructions how to install OpenVPN 3 Linux can be found here: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPN3Linux> -- kind regards, David So

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2fa user authentication

2021-07-06 Thread David Sommerseth
ernative to a DIY approach. [1] <https://openvpn.net/access-server/> [2] <https://openvpn.net/cloud-vpn/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] figuring out connection interface

2021-06-10 Thread David Sommerseth
gister for an account (valid for community Trac and forums) if you don't have one already. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] The preferred way to run a client on linux?

2021-06-08 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/06/2021 23:00, Bo Berglund wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:46:02 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/06/2021 09:41, Bo Berglund wrote: 2) By adding a service -- Do the same as above with the client.ovpn file Then: sudo systemctl enable openvpn@client.service sudo

Re: [Openvpn-users] log

2021-06-07 Thread David Sommerseth
you can store them in a text file, insert into a database or similar things. More information can be found in the openvpn man page: <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/man-sections/script-options.rst> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_sig

Re: [Openvpn-users] The preferred way to run a client on linux?

2021-06-07 Thread David Sommerseth
fresh state. For clients restarting, there exists a state already on the server side which we want to avoid confusing. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing

Re: [Openvpn-users] GUI auto-disconnect option

2021-05-27 Thread David Sommerseth
than what the Linux distro provides, our third-party repo is usually good enough. But the third-party repos should only be used if you have no other choice to the distro provided packaging. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvp

Re: [Openvpn-users] systemd[1]: openvpn@X.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.

2021-04-27 Thread David Sommerseth
the openvpn-client@.service and openvpn-server@.service unit files; as described here: <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.5.2/distro/systemd/README.systemd> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailin

Re: [Openvpn-users] Kill stale session at the server

2021-04-09 Thread David Sommerseth
also agree with Selva here. Also, OpenVPN 3 Core library already has explicit-exit-notify as the default (it doesn't even grok this option; it's hard-coded to always be enabled). But it needs to be restricted to UDP only and most likely tls-client mode only. -- kind rega

Re: [Openvpn-users] ERROR: setrlimit() failed: Operation not permitted (errno=1)

2021-03-20 Thread David Sommerseth
eally any program should run with as few privileges as possible. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Fragment

2021-03-09 Thread David Sommerseth
[AEAD] built on Oct 13 2020 What I suspect Gert meant was that you can add it in the client config on the clients - and each client config may have different --mssfix values. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP di

Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows ovpn server DHCP

2021-03-02 Thread David Sommerseth
ileges? Once that has been figured out, we can more easily see and understand if something in the OpenVPN code paths was misbehaving. But from what we see from these log lines so far, everything is as expected. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc

Re: [Openvpn-users] TCP syn]

2021-02-25 Thread David Sommerseth
n the kernel. You need a stateless protocol layer (UDP) to battle the TCP SYN challenges. And with --port-share, OpenVPN becomes a (MITM) proxy also for all the traffic not identified as OpenVPN packets. --port-share needs a destination port for the non-OpenVPN traffic. -- kind regards,

Re: [Openvpn-users] TCP syn]

2021-02-24 Thread David Sommerseth
kies, but that is entirely handled by the kernel and TCP stack - nothing OpenVPN (or any other application) will need to or can care about. This Linux Weekly News article has a nice walk-through of TFO at an earlier development stage: <https://lwn.net/Articles/508865/> -- ki

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Setup on a VM with two NICs

2021-02-16 Thread David Sommerseth
ns, but this matter will be treated later.) IPv6 is handled in the same as IPv4, you just need to use the -ipv6 related options in addition. See the man page for details. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v13 beta released

2020-12-10 Thread David Sommerseth
tions how to install OpenVPN 3 Linux can be found here: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPN3Linux> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc Tech preview: Enable OpenVPN Data Channel Offload -- -

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v12 beta released

2020-11-30 Thread David Sommerseth
releases, the Python 3 openvpn module did not understand the --tls-version-min and --tls-version-max options. This has been resolved and these options are forwarded properly to the configuration manager. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc [0] <https://gitlab.com/openvpn/openv

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVpn and re-authenticate

2020-11-09 Thread David Sommerseth
be the right solution. But then you should enable renegotiation based on bytes or packet counters (--reneg-bytes, --reneg-pkts) instead. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openv

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Static Challenge With External Script

2020-11-06 Thread David Sommerseth
this might get you going quicker: <https://openvpn.net/multi-factor-authentication-with-openvpn-community-edition/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v11 beta released

2020-11-03 Thread David Sommerseth
On 02/11/2020 19:22, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 03:00:58PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: >>> Then the imported configuration profile must get the DCO feature >>> enabled: >>> >>> $ openvpn3 config-manage --show --

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v11 beta released

2020-11-02 Thread David Sommerseth
On 02/11/2020 14:30, David Sommerseth wrote: > With the kernel module installed, the configuration file must be > be imported: > > $ openvpn3 config-import --config CONFIG_FILENAME \ > --name CFGNAME \ > --persistent >

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v11 beta released

2020-11-02 Thread David Sommerseth
he 'openvpn3-as' utility now signals to the Access Server the downloaded configuration profile is intended to be imported into a local storage. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc [0] <https://gitlab.com/openvpn/openvpn3-linux> <https://g

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN GUI Windows, OpenVPN running as service

2020-09-22 Thread David Sommerseth
mmunity-downloads/> [2] <https://openvpn.net/client-connect-vpn-for-windows/> [3] <https://openvpn.net/access-server/> [4] <https://openvpn.net/cloud-vpn/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users

Re: [Openvpn-users] On Access policies

2020-08-27 Thread David Sommerseth
[0] ;-) Web page has not been updated in a long while, but the project does still live and should work fine with OpenVPN 2.4 servers when using --compat-names. OpenVPN 2.5 servers support will arrive as soon as I have time to hack more on this project again; or some

Re: [Openvpn-users] Is OpenVPN based on SSL VPN?

2020-08-22 Thread David Sommerseth
t is a data or control channel packet. So depending on what you mean with "SSL VPN", OpenVPN may or may not be an SSL VPN. OpenVPN has its own protocol, but it does use the standard TLS protocol for some of its operation. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc __

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v10 beta released

2020-07-27 Thread David Sommerseth
as been extended with more region CA certificates used for the request validations. In addition it will now pick up more of system CA certificate file locations than before. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc [0] <https://gitlab.com/openvpn/openvpn3-linux> <h

Re: [Openvpn-users] peer-peer vpns and systemd

2020-07-19 Thread David Sommerseth
guration but enhances the security and this should work fine with the existing unit files. [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy> [2] <https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/> [3] <https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/blob/master/README.quickstart.md> -- kind reg

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN issues with Windows NLA

2020-07-04 Thread David Sommerseth
adds. The biggest challenge of DoT is that many DNS servers have not been upgraded to a reasonable solution with this support, and many who has done that has not configured DoT yet. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth ___ Openvpn

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN webinar - 24th June

2020-06-17 Thread David Sommerseth
etails: <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenVPN+Access+Server+webinar&iso=20200624T10&p1=224> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvp

Re: [Openvpn-users] First steps toward setting up openvpn

2020-05-28 Thread David Sommerseth
ble starting point: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/GettingStartedwithOVPN> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sou

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread David Sommerseth
le --client-connect scripts configured, the later one should overwrite the prior one. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.so

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread David Sommerseth
imilar tricks in other setups ages ago) -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc > -Original Message- > From: Selva Nair > Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2020 10:04 PM > To: Morris, Russell > Cc: openvpn users list (openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > > Subject:

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