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diff --git a/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 b/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 index b7d6a3d7..34894e5a 100644 --- a/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -2343,18 +2343,23 @@ is NOT specified. .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-multihome -Configure a multi-homed UDP server. This option can be used when -OpenVPN has been configured to listen on all interfaces, and will -attempt to bind client sessions to the interface on which packets -are being received, so that outgoing packets will be sent out -of the same interface. Note that this option is only relevant for -UDP servers and currently is only implemented on Linux. - -Note: clients connecting to a -.B \-\-multihome -server should always use the -.B \-\-nobind -option. +Configure a multi-homed UDP server. This option needs to be used when +a server has more than one IP address (e.g. multiple interfaces, or +secondary IP addresses), and is not using +.B \-\-local +to force binding to one specific address only. This option will +add some extra lookups to the packet path to ensure that the UDP reply +packets are always sent from the address that the client is +talking to. This is not supported on all platforms, and it adds more +processing, so it's not enabled by default. + +Note: this option is only relevant for UDP servers. + +Note 2: if you do an IPv6+IPv4 dual-stack bind on a Linux machine with +multiple IPv4 address, connections to IPv4 addresses will not work +right on kernels before 3.15, due to missing kernel support for the +IPv4-mapped case (some distributions have ported this to earlier kernel +versions, though). .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-echo [parms...] @@ -5467,9 +5472,11 @@ option can be used BEFORE this option to produce debugging information. .SS IPv6 Related Options .\"********************************************************* The following options exist to support IPv6 tunneling in peer-to-peer -and client-server mode. As of now, this is just very basic -documentation of the IPv6-related options. More documentation can be -found on http://www.greenie.net/ipv6/openvpn.html. +and client-server mode. All options are modeled after their IPv4 +counterparts, so more detailed explanations given there apply here +as well (except for +.B \-\-topology +, which has no effect on IPv6). .TP .B --ifconfig-ipv6 ipv6addr/bits ipv6remote configure IPv6 address @@ -5500,7 +5507,8 @@ pool starts at .B ipv6addr and increments by +1 for every new client (linear mode). The .B /bits -setting controls the size of the pool. +setting controls the size of the pool. Due to implementation details, +the pool size must be between /64 and /112. .TP .B --ifconfig-ipv6-push ipv6addr/bits ipv6remote for ccd/ per-client static IPv6 interface configuration, see @@ -6094,14 +6102,20 @@ where is the verification level. Only set for TLS connections. Set prior to execution of .B \-\-tls-verify -script. This is in the form of a hex string like "37AB46E0", which is -suitable for doing serial-based OCSP queries (with OpenSSL, you have -to prepend "0x" to the string). If something goes wrong while reading +script. This is in the form of a decimal string like "933971680", which is +suitable for doing serial-based OCSP queries (with OpenSSL, do not +prepend "0x" to the string) If something goes wrong while reading the value from the certificate it will be an empty string, so your code should check that. See the contrib/OCSP_check/OCSP_check.sh script for an example. .\"********************************************************* .TP +.B tls_serial_hex_{n} +Like +.B tls_serial_{n}\fR, +but in hex form (e.g. "12:34:56:78:9A"). +.\"********************************************************* +.TP .B tun_mtu The MTU of the TUN/TAP device. Set prior to |