Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN architecture questions

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Jason Haar wrote: > On 29/11/15 22:56, Steffan Karger wrote: >> OpenVPN makes a distinction between control traffic (key/config >> exchange, etc) and data traffic (actual vpn network packets). For >> control packets, OpenVPN has a

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN architecture questions

Hi Leroy, On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: > Thank you for your reply, I appreciate it (and the technical > distinctions concerning reliability). Do you have a pointer to a source > for additional information about what is retained in OpenVPN's

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN architecture questions

On 29/11/15 22:56, Steffan Karger wrote: > OpenVPN makes a distinction between control traffic (key/config > exchange, etc) and data traffic (actual vpn network packets). For > control packets, OpenVPN has a reliability layer that ACKs packets, > retransmits, etc. For data packets, OpenVPN does

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN architecture questions

Thank you for your reply, I appreciate it (and the technical distinctions concerning reliability). Do you have a pointer to a source for additional information about what is retained in OpenVPN's "state"? I don't mind doing the reading if I just knew where to look (even a well-labeled C

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN architecture questions

If I'm correctly reading into how OpenVPN works the server is in some sense stateful in that it has to remember the association of the original source address of a client with the client's VPN address in order to route a reply packet back to it. Are there other things it remembers about the