Compress display

[octopus]

What settings remove compress statistics displayed in gui?
I have one not displaying, can't figure out what?

 

[degrub]

Are those from the WAN interface or the ISP interface ?

 

[octopus]

Are those from the WAN interface or the ISP interface ?

from VPN - Status

 

[ColinTaylor]

Just guessing, but maybe setting "Compression = None" in the VPN client.

 

[RMerlin]

The webui will display everything returned by OpenVPN's status command.

 

[octopus]

The webui will display everything returned by OpenVPN's status command.

Can you explain?

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Can you explain?

Under your VPN settings, if you set Compression to "none" (and perhaps even "disabled"), it will show 0 for compressed bytes under the main "VPN Status" tab. If you choose something else, or you force it on through your custom config, you will then see compressed bytes. Compression is not always better, and may slow things down depending on your situation.

 

[CaptainSTX]

What settings remove compress statistics displayed in gui?
I have one not displaying, can't figure out what?


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If your VPN server is run by a commercial service, then you really don't control the VPN's settings. The VPN provider determines if they will compress the data which in theory might be more economical for them. The downside of compression is then your router has to compress and uncompress the data along with decrypting it so the throughput you see probably isn't improved. While my VPN provider's configuration file for OPEN VPN shows LZO adaptive I don't remember every seeing any data for pre-post compression. Currently I run WG clients so I can't verify that is still the case, but compression is probably an archaic setting no longer normally used.

I suppose if you ran your own VPN and controlled both the server and client end you could choose to compress the data and then these data fields might be populated.

 

[dave14305]

I have one not displaying, can't figure out what?

If there is an odd number of statistic fields, it will leave a blank, unused cell.

 

[octopus]

Just guessing, but maybe setting "Compression = None" in the VPN client.

I have tested with compression none/disabled and have no effect. (I don't use comprerssion I have that turned off) vpnversion: 2.6.16
I have one client without this fields and 2 with.
All clients have pretty much same config, only thing I can think effekt this is: "tls-auth static.key 1" / tls-crypt static.key.

Those of you who are good at finding In the source code, what triggers this?

@dave14305