On 20 Feb 2016 9:19 am, "Gert Doering" <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:40:28AM +0530, Shubham Chauhan wrote: > > the --float option seems to be interesting! > > > > Help me understand one scenario. > > If I want to transfer a VPN session from one VPN server to another, keeping > > the same openvpn process running at the client side, then will the > > "--float" option help? If not float, then is there any other method? > > Floating in TLS client/server mode will only cover clients that move > to a new IP address (NAT timeout, wifi/3G roaming, ...) > > Roaming to a new server needs a full TLS handshake.
Not just the TLS handshake, but also the OpenVPN handshake to set up IPs, routing, etc. OpenVPN does not support any of that currently, afaik. I think the TLS handshake is the least of your worries. Making roaming between servers work at all is the hard part. -Steffan
