Denis Vlasenko <v...@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> said: > On Friday 28 May 2004 17:29, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We got a bug report at Debian [1] regarding the route option. > > It turns out that if a route added by openvpn is later > > modified (removed and added to other iface), openvpn will modify > > (delete) the later one. > > > > As the bug submitter states, maybe openvpn should specify the device it > > wants the route deleted from. > > I think openvpn's routing options are intended for 'typical use' only. > It is impossible for openvpn to know each and every non-trivial setup > possible. > > If you modify openvpn-created route after it starts, your setup > is at least a bit non-typical.
I'd have to agree here that sensing cases where the user modifies the routes set by OpenVPN through the use of the --route directive is beyond the scope of what --route is meant to accomplish. It would be better to just use --up/--down scripts in this case. James
