> There are openvpn 2.3 clients in 3g routers which  are built without
> ability to inform server about cipher, so server uses default cipher for
> them,
> 
> in case you need to change default cipher on server you can't do this ,
> because clients will not work, it is also impossible to change default
> cipher on all clients at once,
> 
> so this is where ability to set default cipher on ccd helps.  All these
> are explained in ticket.
> 
> Thanks to patch author we were able to change default cipher without
> downtime.
> 
> btw, we still run such routers but can't do the same procedure because
> patch is not compatible with 2.4.9 if for some reason current cipher
> will became nonsecure as blowfish.
> 

Allowing to be able to specify ncp-fallback-cipher from my proposal per
ccd if no NCP could be performed would also fix your use case, right?

Arne

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