HI, On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 07:05:32PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 6:53 PM Mason Walters via Openvpn-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I've ran into this issue with 2.5 clients. Adding 'explicit-exit-notify' > > to the client's config resolved it for me. > > > > > > ???explicit-exit-notify [n] > > > > I have always felt that this (with say n=1) should have been on by default > in UDP clients. And ignored byTCP clients instead of flagging a FATAL > error. Wonder why keep this as an optional option.
Not sure. I assume it's a relict from ancient times when the main
focus was "p2p with --secret" (where you could restart each end without
the other side having to notice).
On the server side, explicit-exit-notify is a bit more problematic today
(it currently interferes in strange ways with saved tokens on the client),
but on the client side I'm not sure I see drawbacks.
That said, maybe we should just make it pushable *and* de-FATAL it for
TCP mode (pushed or not). So server operators can decide what they want.
(*That* said, reconnecting should still work :-) - a client could "go
away" without having time to send an explicit-exit - like, device crash,
power outage, ...)
gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected]
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