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Re: [Openvpn-users] client seeking server...


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] client seeking server...
  • From: James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 02:04:37 -0700 (MST)


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Nik wrote:

> James,
> 
> Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
> 
> James Yonan wrote:
> >>I have tried setting the --persist-remote-ip option in the client 
> >>config, but this seems to break the server search, so that after a 
> >>timeout on the first server, the next try is again on the first server, 
> >>rather than progressing to the second server (ie if the first server is 
> >>not available, a connection cannot be made.)
> > 
> > 
> >>Q2.1 Is this possibly a bug?
> > 
> > 
> > No, the behaviour makes sense -- if you use --persist-remote-ip you are
> > telling OpenVPN to reuse its current remote IP on restart.
> 
> Except in this case, there is no current remote ip, because the client 
> hasn't managed to connect yet.

In this context, the current remote IP is the most recent address which
was tried, not the last address which succeeded.

James


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