Re: [Patch] openvpn with TCP

[Tambet Ingo <tambet ximian com>]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 10:06 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Patch looks fine; but did OpenVPN previously use 'tcp'?  Or has it
> always used 'tcp-client'?  It seems odd that there is a 'udp' option,
> but the TCP option is called 'tcp-client'.  I'd expect it to be either
> 'tcp' & 'udp', or 'tcp-client' & 'udp-client'.  I don't want to break
> stuff on an upgrade unless we know exactly what we're breaking.

>From the information I could gather (mostly from openvpn ChangeLog), it
looks like 'tcp' is provided as a shortcut, but only works if the
'-server' or '-client' part can be guessed (from --mode I think). The
first time '--proto tcp-client' is mentioned in the ChangeLog is from
2004.01.14 -- Version 1.6-beta1.

Tambet