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It appears all the ISPs I use have figured out how to kill OpenVPN after a few Mbytes have passed, resulting in annoying VPN service interruptions and restarts
by thyrsus 9y ago
It appears all the ISPs I use have figured out how to kill OpenVPN after a few Mbytes have passed, resulting in annoying VPN service interruptions and restarts (I need to figure out how to restart it automatically) - and the browser reacts to the interrupted transfer by restarting it on the now VPNless network connection. Obscurity might be a defense against this (but wouldn't be if one were targeted instead of getting caught in a driftnet).
- _joel 9y agoThat's not been my experience with OpenVPN. It's setup to reconnect to the VPN and only route traffic via the VPN (separate box, actually a repurposed old laptop). Take a look at ping and ping-restart options
- thyrsus 9y agoThanks for the suggestions, but decreasing the ping interval only made the VPN fail faster, and there was no difference in behavior between ping-restart and ping-exit :-(.