On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:24:15PM -0700, James Yonan wrote: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > Another bug report received in the Debian BTS [1]. Quoting: > > |when the link which was used for openvpn transport goes down, it hangs > > |in a D state > > | > > |root 2037 0.0 0.2 3376 1620 pts/1 D 10:45 0:04 openvpn > > | > > |and there is no way to kill it, I have to reboot. Other programs (eg. > > |wavemon) can handle this situation more sanely. > > Any idea how to reproduce it? > > OpenVPN normally has no problem with intermittent links.
No idea, James. I wasn't able to reproduce it. I can unplug the ethernet cable, ifconfig ethX down, but OpenVPN will not hang and it will recover once the cable is back or the interface is up. -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.org Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
