On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:28:42 -0400 "Martin Gignac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake:
> On 10/20/06, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have set verbosity to 5 and watched it. I get lots of W (Writes) and > > R's (Reads) while it is idle, which I was thinking was the pings. On the > > client side I would see WRWRWRWRWRWWWWWWWWW... (drop and reset) > > I've never had problems with OpenVPN before (at least none that were > not due to my own stupidity) so I've never had to set the verbosity to > anything above 3. However, 6 to 11 are considered the debug info > range, so you might want to try that and see. The stupidity thing is still in the running... Well... it never goes out of style > > The server is running OpenBSD 3.8 and the clients have been a mix of > > linux/mac/windows. My linux/mac clients both run fine with an OpenBSD > > 3.8 OpenVPN server on another box. This box is not nearly as used, but > > it is also much older hardware - but have never had a problem with it. > > If an old OpenBSD 3.8 box runs fine while another newer one with the > same release of OpenBSD and OpenVPN doesn't run as well, then maybe > there's a problem with the hardware itself (Ethernet card, bad cable, > speed/duplex autonegotiation problems, etc.). Well, its been in production as a firewall for a while now on that version of OpenBSD. The only NIC in it is the unsupported version of the Intel Pro/1000 MT card. (Checksum failures - already talked about in the archives). But we are not using it. > > it seems that the server would stop pinging the client then... > > Put the logs at verbosity 6 or higher and if you're lucky to might get > a message that explains everything, or at least might give some hint > as to what's going on. > > > In a new development I removed the nice setting today and things are > > still really running smooth with the client. Which leads me to really > > want to smash my head into the desk repeatedly. I will try the higher verbosity level. Thanks for the info