Hi,

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:53:21AM +0200, Lev Stipakov wrote:
> OpenVPN 3, however, doesn't change packet-id on retransmission,
> which triggers replay protection and causes level 1 nonfatal errors
> in logs.
> 
> When replay protection sees the packet with the same timestamp
> and packet-id as previously received one, this is likely retransmission
> from OpenVPN 3. To not to scare users, tune verbosity down in this case.

Wouldn't "fix this in OpenVPN 3, instead of hiding the warning in 2.x"
be a better approach?

This complicates 2.x code, which is complicated enough...

(If merged at all, this would not match our criteria for release/2.5 
either - it's neither a bugfix, nor a long-term compatibility thing)

gert
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