[Openvpn-users] Re: new beta15 keeps restarting

[Kurt <kurt.semba@xxxxxx>]

James Yonan <jim <at> yonan.net> writes:

> The failure to restart is probably because you are using --user and/or 
> --group so that the process no longer has sufficient privilege to open 
> the TUN/TAP device, though it doesn't explain where the SIGHUP came from.
> 
> How difficult is this to reproduce?
> 
> James

Hi all,

thx for your very helpful advices!

Here is where I am so far after a half an hour internal test (not connecting
from the internet) of the VPN connection:

1. Step: I disabled the group / user nobody features (on the server side) and
and added the persist-tun persist-key features (on server and client side) -->
Result: The connection kept restarting every minute or two but this time the
connection didn't brake and the server didn't crash :)

2. Step: I additionally inserted the keepalive 10 60 option on both the server
and the client --> Result: No more restarts :) --> I just don't know why the
server kept crashing on me when I used this keepalive directive in beta11??

I guess now I can add the user / group nobody feature and disable the
persist-tun persist-key feature since my connection isn't restarting all the
time and I have a permanent IP address for the server so the client won't need
to "follow" new IP address of a DNS name???

Still open to verify: long time testing.

Thx to all that helped,
Kurt

Thx again for all your help


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