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Re: [Openvpn-users] Can tunneled TCP connections survive Internet connection interruption?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Can tunneled TCP connections survive Internet connection interruption?
  • From: James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:58:31 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Kent Tong wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Suppose that openvpn is used to link across two sites with Internet
> connections with static IPs. However, the Internet connections are 
> not 100% reliable, ie, sometimes a connection may be lost for a few 
> seconds. Will connections tunneled in openvpn survive the interruption?

Losing the connection for a few seconds normally shouldn't affect 
anything.

You can tune OpenVPN's sensitivity to short-duration network outages by 
using the "keepalive" directive.

James


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