Thank you I will try this.
Marvin
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> On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:34 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 07:23:59AM -0700, Marvin Adeff wrote:
>> I???m wondering if the opposite of this scenario has been tested, where the
>> server is running 2.3.18 (on Linux) and a client running 2.5 (on Windows)
>> tries to connect?
>
> It should work, but this is a "should". It's hard enough to test all
> possible combinations of clients and features against git master, so we
> do not normally test current clients against out-of-service releases
> on the server.
>
> On the other hand we do not purposely break client-server protocol,
> so it *should* work. It's just not regularily tested.
>
> If you test, and it breaks, please show client and server logs so we can
> fix it :-)
>
>
>> I know, I know, we should upgrade. Unfortunately in this case OpenVPN
>> server is running on an appliance that cannot be upgraded past Linux 2.6,
>> and I don???t think 2.4.x can run on Linux 2.6.
>
> You do not want to have an appliance that is running an ancient linux
> version connected to the Internet either...
>
> But besides that, compiling OpenVPN 2.4 should be no big problem - it is
> not very demanding regarding system environment or OpenSSL version.
>
> For OpenVPN 2.5 (git master) you'll need an update openssl library - but
> this is also not hard, you can compile it and install it to a non-default
> place ("/usr/local/openssl-1.1.1") and point OpenVPN's configure script
> at it.
>
> One of my test clients is FreeBSD 7.4, which stopped receiving updates
> in 2013 - but with a local openssl installation, it works fine, with
> git master (this is sort of a "are we using fancy features that break
> older unixes now?" lithmus test, not something you want exposed on the
> Internet, or something I'd recommend).
> --
> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
> feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted
> it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
> Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
>
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de
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