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authorAlberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>2016-05-10 17:40:25 +0200
committerAlberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>2016-05-10 17:40:25 +0200
commitffca24bed7a03d95585ad02278667abe75d8b272 (patch)
tree336f336401e5166e1009e24a6c8d40b97a97af89 /doc
parent9653b1bffea4e96c1eb7c1814e8bed21fea62321 (diff)
Imported Upstream version 2.3.11upstream/2.3.11
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/Makefile.in25
-rw-r--r--doc/openvpn.834
2 files changed, 42 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.in b/doc/Makefile.in
index 508acc9..cb2e2c2 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.in
+++ b/doc/Makefile.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.14.1 from Makefile.am.
+# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.15 from Makefile.am.
# @configure_input@
-# Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1994-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This Makefile.in is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -26,7 +26,17 @@
#
VPATH = @srcdir@
-am__is_gnu_make = test -n '$(MAKEFILE_LIST)' && test -n '$(MAKELEVEL)'
+am__is_gnu_make = { \
+ if test -z '$(MAKELEVEL)'; then \
+ false; \
+ elif test -n '$(MAKE_HOST)'; then \
+ true; \
+ elif test -n '$(MAKE_VERSION)' && test -n '$(CURDIR)'; then \
+ true; \
+ else \
+ false; \
+ fi; \
+}
am__make_running_with_option = \
case $${target_option-} in \
?) ;; \
@@ -91,8 +101,6 @@ build_triplet = @build@
host_triplet = @host@
@WIN32_TRUE@am__append_1 = openvpn.8
subdir = doc
-DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/Makefile.am \
- $(dist_man_MANS) $(dist_doc_DATA) $(am__dist_noinst_DATA_DIST)
ACLOCAL_M4 = $(top_srcdir)/aclocal.m4
am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/ax_emptyarray.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/ax_socklen_t.m4 \
@@ -103,6 +111,8 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/ax_emptyarray.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/compat.m4 $(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
am__configure_deps = $(am__aclocal_m4_deps) $(CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES) \
$(ACLOCAL_M4)
+DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(dist_doc_DATA) \
+ $(am__dist_noinst_DATA_DIST) $(am__DIST_COMMON)
mkinstalldirs = $(install_sh) -d
CONFIG_HEADER = $(top_builddir)/config.h
CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES =
@@ -161,6 +171,7 @@ MANS = $(dist_man_MANS)
am__dist_noinst_DATA_DIST = README.plugins openvpn.8
DATA = $(dist_doc_DATA) $(dist_noinst_DATA) $(nodist_html_DATA)
am__tagged_files = $(HEADERS) $(SOURCES) $(TAGS_FILES) $(LISP)
+am__DIST_COMMON = $(dist_man_MANS) $(srcdir)/Makefile.in
DISTFILES = $(DIST_COMMON) $(DIST_SOURCES) $(TEXINFOS) $(EXTRA_DIST)
ACLOCAL = @ACLOCAL@
AMTAR = @AMTAR@
@@ -208,6 +219,7 @@ LIBTOOL = @LIBTOOL@
LIPO = @LIPO@
LN_S = @LN_S@
LTLIBOBJS = @LTLIBOBJS@
+LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH = @LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH@
LZO_CFLAGS = @LZO_CFLAGS@
LZO_LIBS = @LZO_LIBS@
MAKEINFO = @MAKEINFO@
@@ -349,7 +361,6 @@ $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(am__configure_deps)
echo ' cd $(top_srcdir) && $(AUTOMAKE) --foreign doc/Makefile'; \
$(am__cd) $(top_srcdir) && \
$(AUTOMAKE) --foreign doc/Makefile
-.PRECIOUS: Makefile
Makefile: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
@case '$?' in \
*config.status*) \
@@ -620,6 +631,8 @@ uninstall-man: uninstall-man8
ps ps-am tags-am uninstall uninstall-am uninstall-dist_docDATA \
uninstall-man uninstall-man8 uninstall-nodist_htmlDATA
+.PRECIOUS: Makefile
+
@WIN32_TRUE@openvpn.8.html: $(srcdir)/openvpn.8
@WIN32_TRUE@ $(MAN2HTML) < $(srcdir)/openvpn.8 > openvpn.8.html
diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8
index 25ea9f9..1cad9be 100644
--- a/doc/openvpn.8
+++ b/doc/openvpn.8
@@ -1360,7 +1360,11 @@ parameter is interpreted in the same way as the
.B \-\-link\-mtu
parameter, i.e. the UDP packet size after encapsulation
overhead has been added in, but not including
-the UDP header itself.
+the UDP header itself. Resulting packet would be at most 28
+bytes larger for IPv4 and 48 bytes for IPv6 (20/40 bytes for IP
+header and 8 bytes for UDP header). Default value of 1450 allows
+IPv4 packets to be transmitted over a link with MTU 1473 or higher
+without IP level fragmentation.
The
.B \-\-mssfix
@@ -2118,15 +2122,12 @@ parameter can point to an empty directory, however
complications can result when scripts or restarts
are executed after the chroot operation.
-Note: if OpenVPN is built using the PolarSSL SSL
-library,
-.B \-\-chroot
-will only work if a /dev/urandom device node is available
-inside the chroot directory
+Note: The SSL library will probably need /dev/urandom to be available inside
+the chroot directory
.B dir.
-This is due to the way PolarSSL works (it wants to open
-/dev/urandom every time randomness is needed, not just once
-at startup) and nothing OpenVPN can influence.
+This is because SSL libraries occasionally need to collect fresh random. Newer
+linux kernels and some BSDs implement a getrandom() or getentropy() syscall
+that removes the need for /dev/urandom to be available.
.\"*********************************************************
.TP
.B \-\-setcon context
@@ -4554,8 +4555,9 @@ is an expert feature, which - if used correcly - can improve the security of
your VPN connection. But it is also easy to unwittingly use it to carefully
align a gun with your foot, or just break your connection. Use with care!
-The default for --tls-cipher is to use PolarSSL's default cipher list
-when using PolarSSL or "DEFAULT:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP:!kRSA" when using OpenSSL.
+The default for \-\-tls\-cipher is to use PolarSSL's default cipher list
+when using PolarSSL or "DEFAULT:!EXP:!LOW:!MEDIUM:!PSK:!SRP:!kRSA" when using
+OpenSSL.
.\"*********************************************************
.TP
.B \-\-tls\-timeout n
@@ -5454,6 +5456,16 @@ DNS leaks. This option prevents any application from accessing
TCP or UDP port 53 except one inside the tunnel. It uses
Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) and works on Windows Vista or
later.
+
+This option is considered unknown on non-Windows platforms
+and unsupported on Windows XP, resulting in fatal error.
+You may want to use
+.B \-\-setenv opt
+or
+.B \-\-ignore\-unknown\-option
+(not suitable for Windows XP) to ignore said error.
+Note that pushing unknown options from server does not trigger
+fatal errors.
.\"*********************************************************
.TP
.B \-\-dhcp\-renew