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authorAlberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>2012-02-24 11:40:25 +0100
committerAlberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>2012-02-24 11:40:25 +0100
commitb48955cc85b998e387c5de75ed60ce432993f2bb (patch)
tree7742641a545641a8df6c8feb2399b767528e3d29 /debian/README.Debian
parent2de855eb717babbd24adbe5ddf9781a8a91ee9cc (diff)
Last correction to the send_redirects patch.
Also added a note on the new init.d script behaviour regarding all.send_redirects.
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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ In this file:
- Out of memory issues
- LDAP+TLS authentication runs into file exhaustion
- Possible consequences of the 'chroot' option
+- Disabling all.send_redirects on tun + topology subnet setups
openvpn for Debian
@@ -216,4 +217,14 @@ Create an additional "dev/log" socket in the jail by "-a" option to sysklogd or
Kudos to him, for finding out and proposing a solution.
- -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:46:30 +0200
+
+Disabling all.send_redirects on tun + topology subnet setups
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If any of your VPNs uses "dev tun" and "topology subnet" but does not use
+"client-to-client", OpenVPN's init.d script will disable all.send_redirects
+(set it to 0) to avoid sending ICMP redirects trough the tun interfaces (and
+confusing clients).
+
+
+ -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:03:50 +0100