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On Monday, 5 April 2021 18:34, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 02:51:23PM +0000, tincantech via Openvpn-users wrote:
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> > Ref: https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=32100
> > Regarding compression, it is unclear what the best options are.
> > The server config above uses
> > {{{
> > allow-compression no
> > compress
> > comp-lzo no
> > push "comp-lzo no"
> > }}}
>
> If you have no compelling use-case for using compression, then just
> leave out anything that starts with "compression" or "comp-lzo" from
> your config.
>
> "comp-lzo no" is - due to historic mishaps - not the same as
> "no compression"
>
> > However the manual states:
> > --compress alg
> > Note: the `stub` (or empty) option is NOT compatible with the older option 
> > --comp-lzo no.
> > My guess would be that the server config above is indeed an error because 
> > it uses --compress
> > and pushes --comp-lzo no.
>
> It also sets "comp-lzo no", which overrides the previous "compress"
> statement anyway.
>

Ah right, thanks.  That clears up the logic a little..

> > The server then randomly aborts with:
> > vpn-ext kernel: [15774] pid 46022 (openvpn), jid 0, uid 65534: exited on 
> > signal 11
>
> This is not good, and needs debugging. OpenVPN should never SIGSEGV.
>
> This is likely unrelated to compression setting, though. One would
> need a verb 4 log to see what leads to this.
>

I'll see what I can do..

> > Assuming that the client is using some combination of compression options 
> > which cannot be changed,
> > or more likely that it is too much trouble to change all the clients, is 
> > there a recommended setting to disable
> > all compression from the server only ?
>
> compress migrate
>
> this will push whatever the client understands to disable compression
> (or nothing at all if the client has no compression in its config in
> the first place).
>
> Works with 2.2 and up clients (after the recent fixup patch).

Will that be included in version 2.5.2 ?

Thanks

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