Re: [Openvpn-users] What is the function of ipp.txt ?

[William M. <ne...@ma...>]

(From: 
http://searchenterprisewan.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid200_gci1348343,00.html)

"ifconfig-pool-persist /etc/openvpn/ipp.txt: This makes OpenVPN keep a 
list of certificate to IP relationships, so that a client connecting 
will (probably) always have the same IP. "

Hope this helps.

Maddler

On 17/04/2009 21:43, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> filip beijer wrote:
>
>    
>> No you don't have to do anything with that file.
>> from the manual page:
>>
>> --ifconfig-pool-persist file [seconds]
>>      Persist/unpersist ifconfig-pool data to file, at seconds intervals
>> (default=600), as well as on program startup and shutdown.
>>
>>      The goal of this option is to provide a long-term association
>> between clients (denoted by their common name) and the virtual IP
>> address assigned to them from the ifconfig-pool. Maintaining a long-term
>> association is good for clients because it allows them to effectively
>> use the --persist-tun option.
>>      
>
> But as I mentioned, in my case the IP addresses in ipp.txt ,
> although in the correct network 192.168.5.* ,
> have not appeared anywhere else.
> They are not the addresses given by ifconfig on any machine.
>
> So it is not clear to me what function this file could have.
>
>