Re: 2.7.0 regression: lport inside <connection> is ignored

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Hi,

On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 01:48:31PM +0300, Evgeniy Berdnikov wrote:
>  OpenVPN allows some configuration directives to be placed inside
>  <connection>..</connection> blocks. In particular, "lport" directive
>  should bind source port of outgoing UDP packets. This option works fine
>  in versions up to 2.6.15, and is ignored in all 2.7.0(-rc*) I tried.
>  Configuration example:
>=20
>  <connection>
>    remote some.openvpn.srv 1234 udp
>    lport 54321
>  </connection>
>=20
>  It should result in src_port=3D54321 in UDP packets. But in 2.7.0 it
>  results in global lport configuration value (defaults to 1194).

openvpn-users@ is totally the wrong forum to report bugs - the developers
are over there in openvpn-devel@, and no *users* in here can fix that.

This particular issue has already been reported by Debian, in

  https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/995

Nobody had time to diagnose it yet, and come up with a fix.

gert
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