Bug 1571109

Summary:	Add OpenVPN lz4 compression support to nm-connection-editor
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfe>
Component:	NetworkManager-openvpn	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	31	CC:	choeger, code, dcbw, lkundrak, steve, thaller, tibyke
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Description Marc Muehlfeld 2018-04-24 06:25:30 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently, nm-connection-editor only allows users to enable LZO compression (comp-lzo=yes|no) on the client side. Since version 2.4, OpenVPN supports LZ4 compression (compress=lz4). Please add support for this feature in nm-connection-editor.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nm-connection-editor-1.8.10-2.fc28.2.x86_64



How reproducible:
Always



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open "nm-connection-editor"
2. Create/edit an OpenVPN connection
3. Go to the "VPN" tab
4. Click the "Advanced" button



Actual results:
There's only a check box for comp-lzo=yes|no, but not for LZ4 compression. Connections to OpenVPN 2.4 servers which use compress=lz4 fail.



Expected results:
A config option for LZ4 compression should be added.



Additional info:
Workaround for those who want to connect to a server that uses compress=lz4: Start the connection from the command line using the "openvpn" command. You must pass a client config file for the connection to the command (--config /path/to/config_file).

Comment 1 Thomas Haller 2018-04-24 07:09:06 UTC

see also upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777768

It's not only a missing feature in the GUI. The core NetworkManager-openvpn plugin doesn't support lz4.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:54:16 UTC

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Comment 3 Marc Muehlfeld 2019-05-03 06:43:09 UTC

LZ4 compression in nm-connection-editor is still missing in Fedora 30. I changed the version of this ticket to "30".

Comment 4 tibyke 2019-07-10 13:30:09 UTC

any update on this guys?
maybe a workaround or a way to add supplementary openvpn arguments (--compress lz4) somehow?
now I'm using a script with /usr/sbin/openvpn.orig --compress lz4 "$@" as /usr/sbin/openvpn but that's very lame!

Comment 5 Steven Pritchard 2020-02-21 00:39:42 UTC

This issue is still present in Fedora 31.

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 15:00:37 UTC

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Comment 7 Marc Muehlfeld 2020-11-03 15:19:22 UTC

nm-connection-editor in Fedora 33 supports LZ4 and LZ4 v2.

I think this ticket can now be closed.

Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 17:37:39 UTC

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