Hi, Here's the summary of the IRC meeting.
--- COMMUNITY MEETING Place: #openvpn-meeting on irc.freenode.net Date: Thursday 29th August 2019 Time: 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) Planned meeting topics for this meeting were here: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Topics-2019-08-29> Your local meeting time is easy to check from services such as <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock> SUMMARY cron2 and mattock participated in this meeting. --- Briefly touched on HLK testing. It looks like there is something wrong with the underlying network (or drivers) the physical HLK nodes use - there are lots of TCP-related errors during the E2EPerf test. This would help explain why the less aggressive two-machine tests pass, but E2EPerf does not. Mattock has downloaded the Virtual HLK and will convert it to Virtualbox format in the footsteps of rozmansi. With hopefully a successful e2eperf run under his belt mattock will be better equipped to figure out the issues in the physical environment. This task unfortunately progresses at a snail's pace because mattock is being stretched thin by requests from multiple groups of people. Mattock's physical HLK lab is now isolated from the rest of the office network, which will eventually (if needed) allow other people to connect to it for debugging purposes. -- Discussed the Fedora 29 connectivity issue revealed by t_client tests a couple of weeks ago. Mattock planned on separating his buildslaves, including Fedora 29, into a separate network at his home, so that access could be provided to others. However, actually placing the buildslaves to AWS EC2 would be better, as existing community VPN could then be used to provide access. Buildslave and t_client.sh setup is almost completely automated so this would not be a particularly big task. -- Noted that this Friday's mini-hackathon may have fairly limited audience. Cron2 won't make it and it is unclear if lev, dazo, ordex or arne can make it. Mattock will regardless try to move the "builder" task forward; that VM is composed of: - sbuild_wrapper: Debian/Ubuntu package builder - openvpn-build: Windows release package generation - openvpn-windows-buildtest: the "Windows buildslave" He'll also work on setting up the Virtual HLK (see above). -- Full chatlog attached. ---
20:38 < cron2> I won't make the meeting in time either - dinner will be ready
around 20:05 and $wife will kill me if I prefer a meeting to "eat with family"
20:38 < cron2> mattock1: no, ordex, dazo, lev__, and plaisthos
20:38 < mattock1> $wives can be challenging :)
20:38 < mattock1> mattock3 is living inside a tmux session in irssi
20:38 < cron2> ordex sent a note at 19:25 that they want to go partying and not
meet
20:38 < mattock1> are they in the same place?
20:39 < cron2> dunno, but it reads like it
20:39 < mattock1> ok, maybe they're drinking cheap beer in ukraine
20:39 < cron2> so we could have a short meeting at 20:30 or so, if you have
something to report (or questions to discuss)
20:40 < mattock1> I can give that report now
20:40 < mattock1> so, having looked at packet capture logs for e2eperf test I
think there's something wonky in the physical network / windows drivers
20:41 < mattock1> I downloaded the Virtual HLK and will convert that to
Virtualbox format so that I can see if I can reproduce the success of rozmansi
there
20:42 < mattock1> if so, I will see what a successful run should look like,
then figure out how to fix the problem in the physical HLK environment
20:43 < cron2> sounds like a plan
20:43 * cron2 needs to help $wife with dinner now, will be back
20:43 < mattock1> unfortunately I'm being pulled from all directions to other
tasks
20:43 < mattock1> so things progress at a snail pace
20:44 < mattock1> I started work on the Windows buildslave but it is not yet in
production
20:44 < mattock1> I'll try to move that forward tomorrow in the mini-hackathon
20:45 < mattock1> plus try to convert and launch the virtual HLK thing in
Virtualbox
20:56 -!- mattock2 [~mattock@openvpn/corp/admin/mattock] has joined
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21:04 < mattock1> more mattocks
21:05 < mattock1> if anyone is here let me know :)
20:38 < mattock1> are they in the same place?
20:39 < cron2> dunno, but it reads like it
20:39 < mattock1> ok, maybe they're drinking cheap beer in ukraine
20:39 < cron2> so we could have a short meeting at 20:30 or so, if you have
something to report (or questions to discuss)
20:40 < mattock1> I can give that report now
20:40 < mattock1> so, having looked at packet capture logs for e2eperf test I
think there's something wonky in the physical network / windows drivers
20:41 < mattock1> I downloaded the Virtual HLK and will convert that to
Virtualbox format so that I can see if I can reproduce the success of rozmansi
there
20:42 < mattock1> if so, I will see what a successful run should look like,
then figure out how to fix the problem in the physical HLK environment
20:43 < cron2> sounds like a plan
20:43 * cron2 needs to help $wife with dinner now, will be back
20:43 < mattock1> unfortunately I'm being pulled from all directions to other
tasks
20:43 < mattock1> so things progress at a snail pace
20:44 < mattock1> I started work on the Windows buildslave but it is not yet in
production
20:44 < mattock1> I'll try to move that forward tomorrow in the mini-hackathon
20:45 < mattock1> plus try to convert and launch the virtual HLK thing in
Virtualbox
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21:04 < mattock1> more mattocks
21:05 < mattock1> if anyone is here let me know :)
21:05 < mattock1> it is meeting time
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21:18 < mattock2> one mattock down, two to go
21:27 < cron2> now I'm back
21:28 < mattock2> hi
21:28 < cron2> this mini-hackathon will be with out me (mostly) as I'm on
vacation
21:28 < cron2> I'll check in at siesta time
21:28 < mattock2> anything new at your end?
21:29 < cron2> no... the usual stuff. We need a 2.4.x release eventually, we
have a few "for 2.4" patches in the queue, we want a nice and shiny tap6 driver
:) and we need more active developers
21:29 < mattock2> +3
21:30 < cron2> any progress on the "debug test fail #1 on the ubuntu
buildslave"? you planned to separate your network so you could give access to
ordex
21:31 < mattock2> did the party animals tell if they would join the hackathon
tomorrow?
21:32 < cron2> no, the only part was
21:32 < cron2> (query)
21:32 < mattock2> the HLK env is now mostly separate, but for fedora stuff
creating a new buildslave in EC2 might be more useful
21:37 < mattock2> which I planned to do
21:37 -!- pippin__ [Pippin_@gateway/vpn/protonvpn/pippin/x-75792076] has joined
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21:37 < cron2> it would save a bit of effort to migrate the existing config
over (t_client certs and that)
21:39 -!- mattock1 [~mattock@openvpn/corp/admin/mattock] has joined
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21:40 < mattock1> the buildslave setup is automated including t_client certs so
creating Fedora 29/30 in EC2 is fairly straightforward (new keys, migration
of the puppet code to OpenVPN's puppet-control-repo)
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21:41 < cron2> huh, so it calls out to phillip and creates keys there? nice :)
21:43 < mattock1> well that is not done at the moment, but it would be doable
21:43 < mattock1> if I recall correctly I've been shamelessly reusing vpn keys
from decommissioned buildslaves
21:43 < cron2> well, that also works :)
21:45 < mattock1> anyways, the builder (sbuild_wrapper, openvpn-build,
openvpn-windows-buildtest) and buildslave work is closely related - we've been
moving
our EC2 things under Terraform management which takes some
effort but helps ongoing maintenance a lot
21:46 < mattock1> anyways, the builder VM is the first thing I'll finish (incl.
windows buildslave)
21:46 < mattock1> it is "nearly there"
21:47 < mattock1> fedora 30 buildslave (which "hopefully" has the bug exposed
by t_client tests) would be next
21:47 < mattock1> I hope to get builder going tomorrow - that may be a
reasonable goal
21:47 < cron2> nice
21:48 < mattock1> anything else we could/should discuss?
21:48 -!- pippin__ is now known as Pippin_
21:49 < mattock1> cron2: will you make it to tomorrow's hackathon?
21:49 < cron2> told mattock2 above
21:49 < cron2> 20:28 < cron2> this mini-hackathon will be with out me (mostly)
as I'm on vacation
21:51 < mattock1> oh yes, I see that
21:51 < mattock1> so it will be me fighting openvpn-windows-buildtest
21:51 < mattock1> :P
21:54 < mattock1> so meeting concluded?
21:55 < cron2> yes :)
21:55 < cron2> 5 minutes early!
21:55 < mattock1> good, I have have to wake up very early tomorrow morning
21:55 < cron2> (has anyone seen syzzer recently?)
21:55 < cron2> good night :)
21:55 * cron2 won't get up before 8:30... kids might get up at 9:30
21:55 < mattock1> no, I have not
21:55 < mattock1> lucky you :)
21:56 < mattock1> I have to get up in 9 hours and I'm only eating a bit before
heading to shower and bed
21:56 < mattock1> anyways good meeting even with the limited participants we
had :D
21:58 < mattock1> summary tomorrow
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