Re: [Openvpn-devel] Linux tun/tap performance issues

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Stuge
David Sommerseth wrote: > if you have a "test script" Then git bisect could be used to find the one kernel commit that changed the behavior. //Peter

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Let's not add more complexity to openvpn itself, I'd be much happier if > You just don't understand. > The complexity *WILL* be in OpenVPN, if we decide to support > "route-gateway dhcp" for non-Windows platforms. I'm not sure what "route-gateway dhcp" does, so maybe that's part of the reason

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] bash->bourne script cleanup

2010-03-11 Thread Davide Brini
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, David Sommerseth wrote: > > Well, I was actually going to write a patch, but shortly after starting I > > found out that it would end up being essentially the same as Gentoo's > > scripts. Would it be worth separately maintaining something that has > > already been writ

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/11/2010 01:21:19 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > This might be the other big misunderstanding here. As of today, if > you > want to use "ifplugd + dhcp + ..." on a TAP interface, just do so - > OpenVPN > won't stand in your way. This is not the issue at hand - the issue > is > that OpenVPN wan

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:07:29PM +0100, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > Let's not add more complexity to openvpn itself, I'd be much happier if You just don't understand. The complexity *WILL* be in OpenVPN, if we decide to support "route-gateway dhcp" for non-Windows platforms. The question i

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:10:23PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > In my point of view, it's more important to find a solution which will > be easy to maintain in the OpenVPN code and which doesn't give a > headache to the package maintainers or system admins needing to > configure OpenVPN.

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> Implementing a DHCP client within OpenVPN tends to make this a more >>> self-contained problem. >> I don't think OpenVPN should get into the DHCP business. >> Especially because this is not a problem specific to OpenVPN: the same >> problem of refreshing DHCP info happens with ethernet and with

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCHv2] Fix autotools cross-compiling support

2010-03-11 Thread David Sommerseth
This is a modified version of a patch sent to the sf.net patch tracker: After having disucssed this patch on IRC (#openvpn-discussions) March 4, 2010, it was decided to accept this patch when not modifying TARGET_

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix autotools cross-compiling support

2010-03-11 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
mingw should be *-mingw* and not *-*-mingw* as there are some notation without full notation. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:01 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > This is a modified version of a patch sent to the sf.net > patch tracker: >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Jan Just Keijser
Stefan Monnier wrote: Implementing a DHCP client within OpenVPN tends to make this a more self-contained problem. I don't think OpenVPN should get into the DHCP business. Especially because this is not a problem specific to OpenVPN: the same problem of refreshing DHCP info happens with eth

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Linux tun/tap performance issues

2010-03-11 Thread Jan Just Keijser
Hi all, just ran a very silly test, all with openvpn 2.1.1, on my laptop running FC12 (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64) , Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz, connected to a 100 Mbps LAN server side: openvpn --ifconfig 10.222.0.1 10.222.0.2 --dev tun --secret secret.key --cipher no

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix autotools cross-compiling support

2010-03-11 Thread David Sommerseth
This is a modified version of a patch sent to the sf.net patch tracker: After having disucssed this patch on IRC (#openvpn-discussions) March 4, 2010, it was decided to accept this patch when not modifying TARGET_

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/11/2010 09:10:23 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > I agree to your points, from a theoretical point of view. But from a > practical point of view, I'm not sure how possible it is to find a > more > generic solution which can be used on all *nix based setups. AFAIK, > ifplugd is very Linux orie

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/10 14:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Implementing a DHCP client within OpenVPN tends to make this a more >> self-contained problem. > > I don't think OpenVPN should get into the DHCP business. > Especially because this is not a problem specific

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Implementing a DHCP client within OpenVPN tends to make this a more > self-contained problem. I don't think OpenVPN should get into the DHCP business. Especially because this is not a problem specific to OpenVPN: the same problem of refreshing DHCP info happens with ethernet and with wifi when y

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Supporting "route-gateway dhcp" on non-Windows

2010-03-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:52:00PM +, Timothy Baldwin wrote: > James Yonan wrote: > > > Implementing a DHCP client within OpenVPN tends to make this a more > > self-contained problem. > > But what about IPv6, tunnels and DHCP prefix delegation? IPv6 is a separate issue. The current IP