On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:35:36PM -0600, James Yonan wrote: > > I'm happy to announce that OpenVPN 2.0 has been released! > > Congratulations James! (and all those who helped) > > > I'm going to sit back now, relax, maybe try to get my server slashdotted, > > and I'll try not to think too much about OpenVPN 3.0 until the middle of > > the week :) > > Well, since we're close to the middle of the week, I'd like to ask you a > couple of things... :) > > - There're some bugs reports I couldn't reproduce: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278933 > and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296834 > > And the second issue I don't know how to handle is this: > - Start openvpn multiple times for a certain configuration. > - After the first one is started, the rest will 'claim' to fail > (due to port being in use), but they will leave a process running > (one each). > - Even killing the first (successful) instance, the rest of the > processes will remain aroundi (doing nothing, I guess.
I can't reproduce this. Start one OpenVPN process: ai:~ # openvpn --dev tap --port 9999 --daemon ai:~ # ps ax | grep openvpn 23057 ? Ss 0:00 openvpn --dev tap --port 9999 --daemon Start another on same port: ai:~ # openvpn --dev tap --port 9999 --daemon ai:~ # ps ax | grep openvpn 23057 ? Ss 0:00 openvpn --dev tap --port 9999 --daemon ps still shows one process: ai:~ # ps ax | grep openvpn 23057 ? Ss 0:00 openvpn --dev tap --port 9999 --daemon Syslog shows: Apr 19 12:16:05 ai openvpn[23054]: OpenVPN 2.0 i586-suse-linux [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL] built on Apr 17 2005 Apr 19 12:16:05 ai openvpn[23054]: ******* WARNING *******: all encryption and authentication features disabled -- all data will be tunnelled as cleartext Apr 19 12:16:05 ai openvpn[23054]: TUN/TAP device tap0 opened Apr 19 12:16:05 ai openvpn[23057]: UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:9999 Apr 19 12:16:05 ai openvpn[23057]: UDPv4 link remote: [undef] Apr 19 12:16:29 ai openvpn[23072]: OpenVPN 2.0 i586-suse-linux [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL] built on Apr 17 2005 Apr 19 12:16:29 ai openvpn[23072]: ******* WARNING *******: all encryption and authentication features disabled -- all data will be tunnelled as cleartext Apr 19 12:16:29 ai openvpn[23072]: TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [undef]:9999: Address already in use Apr 19 12:16:29 ai openvpn[23072]: Exiting James
