On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:52:06PM -0400, Larry Martell wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > As I mentioned earlier, its very unlikely that removing > > ping-restart will fix the reconnection that you see. If no pings > > are received for 60 seconds, the connection must be dead anyway. > > Assuming the server is set up to do ping-restart, even if you > > remove ping-restart from the client, the server will still > > initiate a reconnection if it doesn't get any ping from the > > client. > > Well, I connect to 3 different VPNs at different times. For one I > use Open VPN Connect, for one I use some PPTP client that is on my > Mac, and for one I use Tunnleblick. It is only the one I connect to > with Tunnleblick that regularly disconnects. The sysadmin for that > site said I am the only one who is experiencing problems, and he > has variously blamed it on: > > -I am running too much on my computer > -I have an old version of MacOS > -I have many VMs configured (even though none are running when I connect) > -The old firewall/VPN appliance they have is crappy
THEY have an appliance? So this is what, that tunnelblick is connecting to, OpenVPN Access Server? > -I'm a Yankee fan and he's a Red Sox fan :) > He has given up trying to help me, and my client is annoyed because > the constant disconnects seriously effect my productivity. So I am > grasping at straws and willing to try anything. This straw is not going to help you. I'm in agreement with Selva on that. At this point we don't really know enough to help, either, and since you probably don't have access to server-side logs, we might not be able to help anyway. I'd suggest trying a different computer with the same client config. That's a straw also, but it can address the Beantown fan's concerns. You might have posted the client config upthread, sorry, I don't have it here, but I am wondering, is it TCP or UDP? Does the site offer the other protocol? Try switching. Sometimes stupid firewalls will impose arbitrary limits on TCP connections, for example. And a lot of them seem to have problems with UDP. (I had a job trying to work through a 2wire [grrr] "router" one time, and it cut off my ssh connections like clockwork, every 60 seconds. The cure was a UDP peer-to-peer openvpn, then ssh through the tunnel, and all was well. Let me tell you, it was not easy setting up openvpn with only a few seconds per connection to be able to type stuff. If not for GNU screen I probably could not have done it.) -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
