From: Antonio Quartulli <anto...@mandelbit.com> The current persist-tun section has no mention of retaining IP/routes and its potential usage in traffic leaking protection.
Spell this out to allow the user to better understand when this option can play an important role. Change-Id: I6816f61b308ca9f6d1f9f687a6dc8e0aa2d044e0 Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <anto...@mandelbit.com> Acked-by: Frank Lichtenheld <fr...@lichtenheld.com> --- This change was reviewed on Gerrit and approved by at least one developer. I request to merge it to master. Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/819 This mail reflects revision 2 of this Change. Acked-by according to Gerrit (reflected above): Frank Lichtenheld <fr...@lichtenheld.com> diff --git a/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst b/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst index fc76939..67f7e1f 100644 --- a/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst +++ b/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst @@ -312,6 +312,15 @@ :code:`SIGUSR1` is a restart signal similar to :code:`SIGHUP`, but which offers finer-grained control over reset options. + On Linux, this option can be useful when OpenVPN is not executed as + root and the CAP_NET_ADMIN has not been granted, because the process + would otherwise not be allowed to bring the interface down and back up. + + Alongside the above, using ``--persist-tun`` allows the tunnel interface + to retain all IP/route settings, thus allowing the user to implement + any advanced traffic leaking protection (please note that for full + protection, extra route/firewall rules must be in place). + --redirect-gateway flags Automatically execute routing commands to cause all outgoing IP traffic to be redirected over the VPN. This is a client-side option. _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
