Is the IPv4 requirement something thats planned to be removed in future
releases?
I don't assume many people have adopted IPv6 yet.
ryan
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:30:44PM -0400, Ryan Whelan wrote:
> > In testing, I've been able to configure OpenVPN with a ULA IPv6 addresses
> > and the required IPv4 address and via an --up script, remove the IPv4
> > address... This seems to work just fine.
> >
> > My question; are their any unforeseen issues or consequences of doing
> > this? Its very 'hackish' and feels like it might be a mistake to take
> this
> > setup to production and I was hoping someone could chime in on any
> dangers
> > of such a work around.
>
> I do not expect this to cause issues - you might see an error in the log
> at tunnel teardown time when OpenVPN tries to remove the address that's
> already gone, but nothing else will happen.
>
> As soon as the tunnel has been set up, OpenVPN will not actually *notice*
> if you mess with routing or interface config on the operating system side,
> so it's safe :-)
>
> What I'm not sure about is if something will explode if we do not do IPv4
> at all, read, "all the stuff that cares about IPv4 is not initialized",
> as "something might rely on it". But this is really a few days of working
> through the code and making sure nothing breaks (and adjusting options
> that mandate v4 today), no "we *know* that it cannot be done!" stuff.
>
> gert
>
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