Document "lz4" argument to "compress" config option.

Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Acked-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
Message-Id: <1389012640-24174-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/8178

diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8
index f06d5365e4d43d96123e875160b31aff9e52950f..3df7a6f8c3c7cf1d694f2c7534022b32248208ff 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/openvpn.8
+++ b/doc/openvpn.8
@@ -2417,9 +2417,11 @@ Enable a compression algorithm.
 
 The
 .B algorithm
-parameter may be "snappy", "lzo", or empty.  Snappy and LZO
+parameter may be "snappy", "lzo", "lz4", or empty.  Snappy, LZO and LZ4
 are different compression algorithms, with Snappy generally
-offering the best performance.
+offering the best performance while LZ4 is faster with less CPU usage.
+For backwards compatibility with OpenVPN versions before 2.4, use "lzo"
+(which is identical to the older option "\-\-comp-lzo yes").
 
 If the
 .B algorithm