References: <0d1ed9a2-71f4-f791-3633-9937b3764de1@...1227...> <1465656195-12722-1-git-send-email-arne@...1227...> <20160611181434.GT62247@...1296...> <20160611202621.GU62247@...1296...> From: Arne Schwabe Message-ID: <8dce42be-d9df-69cb-52a6-1a3217697282@...1227...> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:33:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------8DD715B1EEF0A98000658CE2" Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [[PATCH v3]] Remove http-proxy-timeout, socks timeout and set default of server-poll-timeout to 120s List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Selva Nair , Gert Doering Cc: "openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8DD715B1EEF0A98000658CE2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > I do wonder how useful these settings are, and why they are not > default... > they predate my OpenVPN involvement by many years. > > > No clue.. I would just propose to remove the option (but accept configs with it in it). Connecting logic with dualstack and new timeouts has changed enough that this corner case behaviour isn't probably worth keeping. The option probably predates even the connection list. Arne --------------8DD715B1EEF0A98000658CE2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I do wonder how useful these settings are, and why they are not default...
they predate my OpenVPN involvement by many years.

No clue..
I would just propose to remove the option (but accept configs with it in it). Connecting logic with dualstack and new timeouts has changed enough that this corner case behaviour isn't probably worth keeping. The option probably predates even the connection list.

Arne
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