OK, my misunderstanding - thanks for clarifying!

... Russell


-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> 
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2018 3:00 AM
To: Morris, Russell <rmor...@rkmorris.us>
Cc: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] Traffic through Cloudflare

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:10:12PM +0000, Morris, Russell wrote:
> 
> Perhaps a dumb question, but I recently set up my (HTTPS) server through 
> Cloudflare, enabling their proxy service. Now when I try to connect to 
> OpenVPN, I get the following?
> 
> WARNING: Bad encapsulated packet length from peer (18516), which must 
> be > 0 and <= 1626 - please ensure that --tun-mtu or --link-mtu is 
> equal on both peers - this condition could also indicate a possible 
> active attack on the TCP link - [Attempting restart...]
> 
> Have other seen this? Is it expected?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

OpenVPN is not using HTTPS, so you can't connect through a reverse proxy (which 
is what Cloudflare does).

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de


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