Tunnel keep-alive set interfaces openvpn vtun0 keep-alive interval 10 set interfaces openvpn vtun0 keep-alive failure-count 3 The above settings will send a keepalive packet every 10 seconds, and reset the tunnel after 30 seconds (interval * failure-count). Push route to client set interfaces openvpn vtun0 server push-route 192.168.2./24

keepalive-timeout (integer | disabled; Default: 60) Defines the time period (in seconds) after which the router is starting to send keepalive packets every second. If no traffic and no keepalive responses has came for that period of time (i.e. 2 * keepalive-timeout), not responding client is proclaimed disconnected: mac-address (MAC; Default: ) Solved: We have VPN's from remote locations using Cisco 861 routers back to an ASA and some to another IOS based router. Wanted to find out what is the best way to keep the VPN's active. We are using "ip sla" feature, but is there Sometimes, I need to restart my OpenVPN server. When I do that, all my clients lose connections and won't automatically reconnect once the server is up again. I'd like to know if there is a way that makes the client restart the connection e.g. after 60 seconds, if the connection is down and keeps trying until it gets connected. Tunnel keep-alive set interfaces openvpn vtun0 keep-alive interval 10 set interfaces openvpn vtun0 keep-alive failure-count 3 The above settings will send a keepalive packet every 10 seconds, and reset the tunnel after 30 seconds (interval * failure-count). Push route to client set interfaces openvpn vtun0 server push-route 192.168.2./24 hi I tried googling but cant find info how you setup OpenVPN client I installed all 3 open vpns from the app store.. couldnt get the OpenVPN-as to even work like th video showed but what I want is to run in a user script connect to my sisters Pfsense Router over the internet.. and then run my Rsy

The OpenVPN pushes the ping 600 and ping-restart 1800 (as a result of the keepalive statement) perfectly fine to the client. Disconnect reason is as quick as 40 seconds after connection on idling, reason: Session invalidated: KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT. That does not make sense to me. Server version: 2.1.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (Debian version 2.1.3-2

Keepalive on higher layers. Since TCP keepalive is optional, various protocols (e.g. SMB and TLS) implement their own keep-alive feature on top of TCP. It is also common for protocols which maintain a session over a connectionless protocol, e.g. OpenVPN over UDP, to implement their own keep-alive. Other uses HTTP keepalive keepalive-timeout (integer | disabled; Default: 60) Defines the time period (in seconds) after which the router is starting to send keepalive packets every second. If no traffic and no keepalive responses has came for that period of time (i.e. 2 * keepalive-timeout), not responding client is proclaimed disconnected: mac-address (MAC; Default: ) Solved: We have VPN's from remote locations using Cisco 861 routers back to an ASA and some to another IOS based router. Wanted to find out what is the best way to keep the VPN's active. We are using "ip sla" feature, but is there

To avoid this kind of behaviour, it's just a matter of telling openvpn to never renegociate a TLS session and keep the existing one alive, if you combine keepalive directive and reneg-sec 0, you're going to have a stable connection, with no renegociation whatsoever.

Keepalive in VPN site to site tunnel I was asked a question by a collegue today if there were any way that a keepalive could be configured so that site to site tunnels would stay up, vs. having to have interesting traffic to allow the ISAKMP Hello, I am using the latest Softether VPN Server (4.09 build 9451) on debian linux, I am trying to connect an android device to it using the official OpenVPN app through tun/tcp , however I am getting disconnects every 10 seconds with a keepalive timeout. OpenVPN indeed has a keepalive option, but NM GUI has no way to pass the parameters, so you might want to hack into the global OpenVPN configuration, but I didn't find one, so it may be hard coded into NM. - Braiam Jul 30 '13 at 3:35. The OpenVPN pushes the ping 600 and ping-restart 1800 (as a result of the keepalive statement) perfectly fine to the client. Disconnect reason is as quick as 40 seconds after connection on idling, reason: Session invalidated: KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT. That does not make sense to me. Server version: 2.1.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (Debian version 2.1.3-2 To avoid this kind of behaviour, it's just a matter of telling openvpn to never renegociate a TLS session and keep the existing one alive, if you combine keepalive directive and reneg-sec 0, you're going to have a stable connection, with no renegociation whatsoever. The usual chain of events is that (a) the OpenVPN client fails to receive timely keepalive messages from the server's old IP address, triggering a restart, and (b) the restart causes the DNS name in the remote directive to be re-resolved, allowing the client to reconnect to the server at its new IP address.