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erwanl

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Registered: 2015-02-19

Posts: 5

OpenVPN client stops working after a few minutes

I'm using OpenVPN client, and it works fine but after a few minutes the VPN stops working.

I'm getting these errors in the logs:

Sun May 10 20:55:28 2015 [nrt-c01.ipvanish.com] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting
Sun May 10 20:55:28 2015 SIGUSR1[soft,ping-restart] received, process restarting
Sun May 10 20:55:28 2015 Restart pause, 2 second(s)
Sun May 10 20:55:30 2015 Socket Buffers: R=[163840->327680] S=[163840->131072]
Sun May 10 20:55:30 2015 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]110.50.241.72:443
Sun May 10 20:55:30 2015 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Sun May 10 20:55:30 2015 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]110.50.241.72:443
Sun May 10 20:56:10 2015 [UNDEF] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting
Sun May 10 20:56:10 2015 SIGUSR1[soft,ping-restart] received, process restarting
Sun May 10 20:56:10 2015 Restart pause, 2 second(s)
Sun May 10 20:56:12 2015 Socket Buffers: R=[163840->327680] S=[163840->131072]
Sun May 10 20:56:12 2015 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]110.50.241.72:443
Sun May 10 20:56:12 2015 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Sun May 10 20:56:12 2015 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]110.50.241.72:443
Sun May 10 20:56:52 2015 [UNDEF] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting
Sun May 10 20:56:52 2015 SIGUSR1[soft,ping-restart] received, process restarting
Sun May 10 20:56:52 2015 Restart pause, 2 second(s)
Sun May 10 20:56:54 2015 Socket Buffers: R=[163840->327680] S=[163840->131072]
Sun May 10 20:56:54 2015 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]110.50.241.72:443
Sun May 10 20:56:54 2015 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Sun May 10 20:56:54 2015 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]110.50.241.72:443

My configuration is the following, directly from the VPN provider:

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote nrt-c01.ipvanish.com 443
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
persist-remote-ip
ca ca.ipvanish.com.crt
tls-remote nrt-c01.ipvanish.com
auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/ipvanish.user
comp-lzo
verb 3
auth SHA256
cipher AES-256-CBC
keysize 256
tls-cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA

What could cause that?

Smallville

Member

Registered: 2014-11-12

Posts: 62

Re: OpenVPN client stops working after a few minutes

Did you fix your poblem ?

ArchiBarchi

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Registered: 2016-06-19

Posts: 1

Re: OpenVPN client stops working after a few minutes

Did you fix your poblem ?

I wanna ask the same.

I had allmost the same issue on a linux based nas system (Zyxel NAS540), using optware pockages.
See here: http://www.zyxelforum.de/viewtopic.php? … 716#p71716

Perhaps it has something to do with: NAT, a wrong cipher or tls error. But perhaps I am wrong

I take some informations from here: http://www.htpcguides.com/configure-ipv … an-ubuntu/

Greetings by ArchiBarchi

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 11,845

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Re: OpenVPN client stops working after a few minutes

Please open a new topic about your issue.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

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