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| author | Arne Schwabe | 2022-01-01 17:25:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Gert Doering | 2022-01-27 18:09:37 +0100 |
| commit | 29453c37c1f3aa420a894996dd7be4a4f8393c5a (patch) | |
| tree | 8bf80df16886f031a9f24d1143144a6a3886b072 /doc/man-sections | |
| parent | 0f7cd474118deeced48168ed9cec0806e7f4cc15 (diff) | |
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Deprecate link-mtu
This options might have been useful in the past but nowadays it has a very
unclear semantics, so better remove/deprecate it.
Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Message-Id: <20220101162532.2251835-2-arne@rfc2549.org>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg23496.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man-sections/link-options.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man-sections/link-options.rst b/doc/man-sections/link-options.rst index 32e72a1..b1ae4e7 100644 --- a/doc/man-sections/link-options.rst +++ b/doc/man-sections/link-options.rst @@ -82,10 +82,15 @@ the local and the remote host. ping-restart 60 # Argument: timeout --link-mtu n - Sets an upper bound on the size of UDP packets which are sent between + **DEPRECATED** Sets an upper bound on the size of UDP packets which are sent between OpenVPN peers. *It's best not to set this parameter unless you know what you're doing.* + Due to variable header size of IP header (20 bytes for IPv4 and 40 bytes + for IPv6) and dynamically negotiated data channel cipher, this option + is not reliable. It is recommended to set tun-mtu with enough headroom + instead. + --local host Local host name or IP address for bind. If specified, OpenVPN will bind to this address only. If unspecified, OpenVPN will bind to all |