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Re: [Openvpn-users] one-to-many-connection: openvpn 2.0 server with openvpn 1.6 clients?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] one-to-many-connection: openvpn 2.0 server with openvpn 1.6 clients?
  • From: James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:43:49 -0600 (MDT)


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 mluser421@xxxxxx wrote:

> hi all.
> 
> as i understand, openvpn 2.0 offers the possibility to handle "one-to-many"
> connections (i.e. one server, many clients) on one single port from one 
> single process
> (as opposed to openvpn 1.6). On the other hand openvpn 2.0 is 
> backward-compatible
> to version 1.6 (if you add a couple options)
> 
> Thus my question: is it possible to run a version 2.0 server (single 
> process, single port)
> with many version 1.6 clients (all connecting to the same server port)?

No, this isn't possible because 2.0 server mode relies on the client 
supporting the "pull" directive.

However 1.x and 2.0 can still work together in point-to-point mode.

James


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