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On Saturday 02 October 2004 06:35, James Yonan wrote: Hi James, > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've compiled 2.0beta11 successfully and use it on lots of machines (all > > 2.4) but now I have a customer who still has Kernel 2.2 running. The > > problem is, the tunnel stays up if I do nothing but ping the end. If I > > try to ssh into the VPN server or browse a samba share, the connection > > locks up immediately and comes back again after ~60 seconds (Inactivity > > timeout (--ping-restart), restarting) > > > > Just my 2 cents: Could it be that the fallback stuff from EPOLL does not > > work? 2.2 does not know even a millimeter about epoll ;) > > I doubt it. EPOLL is only a special optimization used on Linux 2.6 (and > patched 2.4) in TCP server mode. The fallback APIs of poll and select are > still used for everything else. Then there's some other bug with 2.2 kernels. I used proto udp, now I'm trying proto tcp and get these log entries when I try to use the tunnel: Oct 4 20:43:26 alice ovpn-alice[9103]: MULTI TCP: I/O wait required blocking in multi_tcp_action, action=7 Oct 4 20:43:26 alice ovpn-alice[9103]: Exiting ciao, Marc |