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author | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> | 2018-07-29 13:59:02 +0200 |
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committer | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> | 2018-07-29 13:59:02 +0200 |
commit | 2c8e4bc4f9ab94e4d0b63341820d471af7c28c6c (patch) | |
tree | fa0ea07bdd1ac4caab9a9642631f2b2450834894 /doc | |
parent | 4afa7ed562410a1170223a7bc06efb3708af6a36 (diff) |
New upstream version 2.4.6upstream/2.4.6
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/openvpn.8 | 31 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index f8627ab..7512bfb 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -2460,12 +2460,37 @@ seconds. Status can also be written to the syslog by sending a .B SIGUSR2 signal. + +With multi\-client capability enabled on a server, the status file includes a +list of clients and a routing table. The output format can be controlled by the +.B \-\-status\-version +option in that case. + +For clients or instances running in point\-to\-point mode, it will contain the +traffic statistics. .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-status\-version [n] -Choose the status file format version number. Currently -.B n -can be 1, 2, or 3 and defaults to 1. +Set the status file format version number to +.B n\fR. + +This only affects the status file on servers with multi\-client capability +enabled. + +.B 1 +\-\- traditional format (default). The client list contains the following +fields comma\-separated: Common Name, Real Address, Bytes Received, Bytes Sent, +Connected Since. +.br +.B 2 +\-\- a more reliable format for external processing. Compared to version 1, the +client list contains some additional fields: Virtual Address, Virtual IPv6 +Address, Username, Client ID, Peer ID. +Future versions may extend the number of fields. +.br +.B 3 +\-\- identical to 2, but fields are tab\-separated. + .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-mute n |