Hi, On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:43 AM Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 09:03:20AM +0200, free...@tango.lu wrote: > > Ok so after a bit of research and finding half baked articles such as: > > https://superuser.com/questions/1283125/proper-configuration-for-quagga-ospf-on-an-openvpn-network > > > > Which makes me think OSPF is only possible with the old tap interfaces, > > what the OpenVPN dev team even want to remove in the future, why is > > there no proper support of OSPF in routed tun tunnels? > > Not sure where that rumor is coming from. No removal of TAP device > support is planned.
I don't know where the rumor started, but I can understand why it is plausible: (A) The OpenVPN developers discourage the use of TAP connections, saying, for example "Layer 3 is for a number of reasons the better choice anyways" [1]; (B) The "OpenVPN Connect" Android and iOS apps do not support TAP connections [1][2]; and (C) Apple has deprecated loading the system extension that Tunnelblick uses to create a TAP device and, on the latest version of macOS, pops up a warning saying the extension "will be incompatible with future versions of macOS" [3]. Best regards, Jon Bullard [1] https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/faq-regarding-openvpn-connect-android/#Why_does_the_app_not_support_TAP-style_tunnels [2] https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/faq-regarding-openvpn-connect-ios/#Why_doesnt_the_app_support_tap-style_tunnels [3] https://tunnelblick.net/cTunTapConnections.html _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
