[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 2/3] packaget/network/services/openvpn: Drop ifconfig/route in favour of ip

[Daniel Dickinson]

On 01/02/16 02:57 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 03:49:58PM -0800, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>> On 21/01/16 02:31 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>> On 2016-01-20 20:22, openwrt at daniel.thecshore.com wrote:
>>>> From: Daniel Dickinson <openwrt at daniel.thecshore.com>
>>>>
>>>> NB: Only compile tested.
>>
>> Based on live testing it appears that openvpn upstream does not work
>> properly at least with the busybox ip applet, but likely also with full
>> iproute2 due to race condition (tun device goes away before ip command
>> runs and sets up networking).
>
> That would surprise me a bit... can I have the openvpn log for that race
> condition?  Is this something special in OpenWRT?  Normally, the tun device
> can never "go away" unless OpenVPN tells it to - and if we do that, we do
> not call ip/ifconfig on it afterwards.

I'll have to set up a test environment to replicate the situation 
because I removed the offending compile in order to get things working. 
  However while the tun device was clearly not present I am wondering if 
the problem was not that it went away but that it wasn't accessible yet 
when the ip command was run (i.e. the opposite to what I initially 
assumed (which is that ip was too late and a timeout had occurred)).  I 
didn't recall seeing anything about either bringing up or tearing down 
the tun device at the log level I was on (I think verbosity 3).

Regards,

Daniel

>
> (Also, for the busybox ip applet, our use of ip is not exactly esoteric -
> setup ipv4/ipv6 addresses on tun if, add ipv4/ipv6 routes)
>
> gert,
>     openvpn upstream
>
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