Re: Transfer from one server to another, compress and digest

Gert Doering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 10:05:50AM +0000, Peter Davis wrote:
> I'm using OpenVPN 2.6.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.
> 
> I removed "cipher AES-256-GCM" from the configuration file and I see the following message in the log file:
> 
> 2024-01-06 13:28:03 Note: --cipher is not set. OpenVPN versions before 2.5 defaulted to BF-CBC as fallback when cipher negotiation failed in this case. If you need this fallback please add '--data-ciphers-fallback BF-CBC' to your configuration and/or add BF-CBC to --data-ciphers.

This is informational, for users migrating from earlier versions that
defaulted to BF-CBC, which is no longer a valid cipher in the default
config of 2.6 (and it might be relevant for compatibility with clients
older than 2.4.0).  You can just ignore it.

> 2024-01-06 13:28:03 --user specified but lacking CAP_SETPCAP. Cannot retain CAP_NET_ADMIN. Disabling data channel offload

This is a different warning, and hints at running OpenVPN from a systemd
config which removes capabilities that OpenVPN would like to keep.

Googling for that message + openvpn-users should find a few threads with
answers how to deal with systemd.

> Do you mean that in OpenVPN version 2.6, AES-256-GCM is enabled by default?

Since 2.4, OpenVPN will auto-negotiate AES-256-GCM if both sides support it.

gert
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