Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:51:58 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Use adapter index instead of name
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To: Olli =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E4nnist=F6?= <olmannisto@...277...>
Cc: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...1866...>

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Hi,

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 04:47:56PM +0300, Olli M=E4nnist=F6 wrote:
> Many VPN providers like us experience these issues and have to give users
> workarounds to fix it. Here are couple of examples:
> https://community.f-secure.com/t5/F-Secure/After-a-Windows-10-upgrade/ta-=
p/72732
> https://forum.hidemyass.com/index.php/topic/18331-connection-problem/
> https://vpn.ccrypto.org/page/install-windows
>=20
> There is also workaround on Microsoft Technet forum
> (
> https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/bb73aa66-=
34c3-49c2-8a2d-def03ee03902/element-not-found-error-when-trying-to-define-s=
tatic-ipv6-route?forum=3Dipv6)
> to use index instead of adapter name. If it's reliable that we always get
> the index figured out it doesn't need to have fallback to use adapter nam=
e.
> In our testing it seems to work well with index and fix the described iss=
ue.

So what is the underlying issue here?  Non-ASCII characters in the device
name ("this *should* have been fixed a few releases ago")?

Note that the technet forum talks about ipv6 *route*, not "set address", and
this is not part of your patch...

gert
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