Hi, On 16/08/2019 13:49, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 15/08/2019 17:53, Gert Doering wrote: >> For reasons historically unknown, OpenVPN sets the listen() backlog >> queue to "1", which signals the kernel "while there is one TCP connect >> waiting for OpenVPN to handle it, refuse all others" - which, on >> restarting a busy TCP server, will create connection issues. >> >> The exact "best" value of the backlog queue is subject of discussion, >> but for a server that is not extremely busy with many connections >> coming in in parallel, there is no real difference between "10" or "500", >> as long as it's "more than 1". >> >> Found and debugged by "mjo" in Trac. >> >> Trac: #1208 >> >> Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> > > Acked-By: David Sommerseth <dav...@openvpn.net> > > I agree with Antonio, and we should make it somewhat easier to modify.
I disagree with you on this point :D This is not something we expect people to play with. This is only a value that a developer with networking knowledge is expected to find and tweak. Hence my suggestion to make it a define in some header main header file. > I'm > not sure if there's value in having it as a runtime option, like > --socket-backlog (or something like that), or as a value you can pass to > ./configure at compile time. > Like above: yet another config option that the average joe can mess up and come up with unknown problems nobody will understand? nonono ;) Cheers, > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-devel mailing list > Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel > -- Antonio Quartulli
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