Re: [Openvpn-users] automatic reconnect? (Mac/tunnelblick)

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some new info on an old thread...

David Balazic wrote:
> see the restart options (in the manual)
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> David
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> From: openvpn-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Les Mikesell
> Sent: Fri 16-Nov-07 18:51
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> Subject: [Openvpn-users] automatic reconnect?
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> I'm using tunnelblick on a mac to connect to a Linux server with a
> simple static key and everything works fine except that the connection
> breaks at random intervals (perhaps my ISP's fault...).  Reconnecting
> via the tunnelblick icon always works immediately and if done soon
> enough, doesn't affect open tcp connections through the tunnel.  What do
> I need in the config to make it automatically reconnect instead of
> having to do it manually?

I'm still not sure what was going on, but it had something to do with 
installing the twonky media server _and_ the tunnelblick GUI - and 
perhaps having parallels and/or vmware installed with their host 
interface support.   Running openvpn from the command line with the same 
options as suppled by tunnelblick seemed to work for long intervals 
without the disconnects, but when running under the GUI it would 
periodically stop with an entries like this in /var/log/asl.log:

[Time 2007.12.13 13:29:38 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender mDNSResponder] 
[PID -1]  [Message getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet1(9) Flags 8863 
Family  2 172.16.201.1  has different family: 0] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID 
-2] [Host Jill-Mikesells-Computer]

followed by:
[Time 2007.12.13 14:22:47 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender openvpn] [PID 
1196] [Message SIGTERM[hard,\] received, process exiting] [Level 5] [UID 
-2] [GID -2] [Host Jill-Mikesells-Computer]

The demo interval on the twonky media server expired and I removed it 
from the system startup - and now after a reboot I am no longer seeing 
the disconnects or those mDNSResponder events in the logs.  On a perhaps 
  related note, twonky itself had problems with the media player (a PS3) 
connection unless configured specifically to use the ethernet IP address 
as its source and their support forum mentioned the extra interfaces 
that parallels/vmware create as the reason.
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