* David Sommerseth <open...@sf.lists.topphemmelig.net>:
> On 16/11/17 09:42, Илья Шипицин wrote:
> > 
> > just "compression" is somewhat not clearly covered by documentation. is
> > it "stub" ? or is it "enable both lzo and lz4" ?
> 
> My man page says:
> 
>       --compress [algorithm]
>        [...snip...]
> 
>        If  the  algorithm  parameter is empty, com‐
>        pression will be turned off, but the  packet
>        framing   for   compression  will  still  be
>        enabled, allowing a different setting to  be
>        pushed later.
> 
> If this is not clear enough, how could we improve that?
> 
> But JJK is most likely right that lzo and lz4 cannot be mixed between
> clients.  But you can have some clients which gets a 'push "compress
> $ALGORITHM", where $ALGORITHM is either lzo or lz4 [1].
> 
> Code wise, --comp-lzo yes is the same as --compress lzo.
> And --comp-lzo no is the same as just --compress.  But --compress is the
> only one allowing different compression algorithms.
> 
> 
> [1] Valid values are actually: stub, stub-v2, lzo, lz4, lz4-v2 - but the
> various differences seems poorly documented outside the source code.

I tried implementing this; my server config uses:

compress lzo

which is backwards compatible to all my clients which use "comp-lzo".
This works fine.


Now I tried pushing individual compression algorithms to clients,
testing with my own account:

if (defined $ENV{'IV_LZ4'} && ($username eq "hildeb") ) {
        $logger->info("$username LZ4 available");
        push @outline, 'push "compress lz4"';

and that results a major FUBAR:

Nov 17 13:41:59 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 SENT CONTROL [hildeb]: 
'PUSH_REPLY,dhcp-option DNS 141.42.1.1,dhcp-option DOMAIN
charite.de,sndbuf 393216,rcvbuf 393216,route-gateway 172.29.0.1,topology 
subnet,ping 10,ping-restart 30,route 10.28.0.0
255.254.0.0,route 10.32.0.0 255.224.0.0,route 172.16.0.0 255.254.0.0,route 
192.168.192.0 255.255.192.0,route 141.42.0.0
255.255.0.0,route 193.175.72.0 255.255.255.0,route 193.175.74.0 
255.255.254.0,route 194.94.4.0 255.255.254.0,compress lz4,ifconfig
172.29.0.91 255.255.192.0,peer-id 124,cipher AES-256-GCM' (status=1)
Nov 17 13:41:59 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Data Channel: using 
negotiated cipher 'AES-256-GCM'
Nov 17 13:41:59 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Outgoing Data Channel: 
Cipher 'AES-256-GCM' initialized with 256 bit key
Nov 17 13:41:59 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Incoming Data Channel: 
Cipher 'AES-256-GCM' initialized with 256 bit key
Nov 17 13:42:01 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Bad LZO decompression 
header byte: 251
Nov 17 13:42:02 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Bad LZO decompression 
header byte: 251
Nov 17 13:42:05 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Bad LZO decompression 
header byte: 251
Nov 17 13:42:05 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Bad LZO decompression 
header byte: 251
Nov 17 13:42:05 openvpn udp[23345]: hildeb/10.31.111.66 Bad LZO decompression 
header byte: 251

I'm using openvpn for mac (2.4.4)...

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