Correct use of Push / Pull

cas8100

The OpenVPN documentation specifies that the server can utilize the push option to send routing information to clients.

Documentation also says that if "client" is in the client configuration, "pull" is implied and the client will then automatically receive anything that has been pushed by the server. My question is if the client can "pull" an option that has not been pushed by the server. For instance, I would like only certain clients to receive a gateway-redirect and dhcp-option DNS. Can I omit 'push "gateway-redirect"' and 'push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"' from the server config and place the following two lines in the client config?

pull "gateway-redirect"
pull "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"

Or...must the server push this information combined with use of "client" in the client configuration.

Thx

Traffic

There is no "correct" way to use push/pull or server config vs specific client config ..
it's upto you how you implement it.

If you want certain clients to be different to the standard server pushes then include --push-reset in the client config file.

See --push-reset in The Manual v23x