No bytecount updates in management interface
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Description
Describe the bug
When this topology is configured DCO is enabled (which happened automatically on package install), no traffic would be reported to the management interface, except for around 2Kb of handshake data.
No amount of waiting results in getting any more data reported.
Enabling/disabling DCO doesn't seem to change anything.
To Reproduce
Set theInstall thetopologyconfig option tosubnetopenvpnpackage using apt- Connect to a management interface with telnet/NC
- Set
bytecount 1 - Observe the absence of traffic reports
Expected behavior
Traffic should be reported normally
Version information (please complete the following information):
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
- OpenVPN version: 2.6.14
Additional context
The issue was updated as it seems that the behavior is indeed triggered by DCO. This flew under the radar initially as the system wasn't rebooted after uninstalling the DCO module
UPD: Weirdly enough, the openvpn-dco-dkms package is marked as suggested, and yet it was installed automatically
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