Advance parameters reference

Ping Type

Instruct the app to use legacy-style ICMP pings. By default, the app retrieves latency information for a location via an HTTP request to a server node. The app should be restarted after adding this parameter, and it is only available on Windows.

ws-use-icmp-pings

Disable Pings

Valid as of app version 2.16.2. This parameter disables pings, for users who are concerned that the pings may give a distinct pattern to their network traffic while disconnected. You must restart the app after enabling this parameter.

ws-no-pings

Log Pings

This parameter instructs the ping subsystem to log the ping results.

ws-log-pings

OpenVPN DCO (kernel) driver support on Windows

The DCO driver was made the default OpenVPN driver in v2.12.1. The following param can be used to fallback to using the wintun driver:

ws-use-openvpn-wintun

• Instructs the app to use the user-space wintun driver rather than DCO for all OpenVPN-based protocols.
• This param should be added while in the disconnected state. An app restart is not required.
• Custom configs will always use wintun.
• NOTE: use of the DCO driver requires a minimum of Windows 10 20H1. User will be warned in the installer and app logs if they are on an unsupported version and the app will use wintun.