Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-14 Thread David Sommerseth
On 14/09/2022 09:38, Antonio Quartulli wrote: Hi, On 14/09/2022 09:33, David Sommerseth wrote: On 12/09/2022 09:41, Gert Doering wrote: During the research for commit a5cf4cfb77f745 it turned out that OpenVPN's behaviour regarding "--dev arbitrary-name" is very platform-specific and not very

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-14 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 09:33:46AM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: > > + What happens if the device name is not :code:`tun` or :code:`tap` is > > + platform dependent. > > + > > + On most platforms, :code:`tunN` (e.g. tun2, tun30) and :code:`tapN` > > + (e.g. tap3) will create a numbered

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-14 Thread Antonio Quartulli
Hi, On 14/09/2022 09:33, David Sommerseth wrote: On 12/09/2022 09:41, Gert Doering wrote: During the research for commit a5cf4cfb77f745 it turned out that OpenVPN's behaviour regarding "--dev arbitrary-name" is very platform-specific and not very well documented. The referenced commit fixed

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-14 Thread David Sommerseth
On 12/09/2022 09:41, Gert Doering wrote: During the research for commit a5cf4cfb77f745 it turned out that OpenVPN's behaviour regarding "--dev arbitrary-name" is very platform-specific and not very well documented. The referenced commit fixed DCO behaviour to be in line with non-DCO linux

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-14 Thread Antonio Quartulli
Hi, On 14/09/2022 08:23, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:38:29PM +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote: + On other platforms, ``--dev-node node`` will influence the naming of the + created tun/tap device, if supported on that platform. If OpenVPN cannot + figure out whether

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-14 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:38:29PM +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > > + On other platforms, ``--dev-node node`` will influence the naming of the > > + created tun/tap device, if supported on that platform. If OpenVPN cannot > > + figure out whether ``node`` is a TUN or TAP device based

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-13 Thread Antonio Quartulli
On 12/09/2022 09:41, Gert Doering wrote: During the research for commit a5cf4cfb77f745 it turned out that OpenVPN's behaviour regarding "--dev arbitrary-name" is very platform-specific and not very well documented. The referenced commit fixed DCO behaviour to be in line with non-DCO linux

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dev and --dev-node.

2022-09-12 Thread Gert Doering
During the research for commit a5cf4cfb77f745 it turned out that OpenVPN's behaviour regarding "--dev arbitrary-name" is very platform-specific and not very well documented. The referenced commit fixed DCO behaviour to be in line with non-DCO linux behaviour, this commit catches up on the