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Re: [Openvpn-users] connection timeout


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] connection timeout
  • From: Simone Manca <simo@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:28:03 +0200 (CEST)

Hi Alberto,

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote:

> The firewall in front of pc1 is a Stateful firewall, isn't it? Probably
> iptables. The problem is that your firewall will let packets trough only
> if it knows those packets belong to a connection.

I don't know what firewall type is it.

> If you start sending packets from pc1 then packets from pc2 are supposed
> to be from the same 'connection' (ok, UDP has no connections, but just
> to ilustrate my example :-)
>
> So when time passes, and there's no traffic, if pc2 tries to send
> anything to pc1, the firewall won't associate those packets with
> anything 'going on' and it won't let them pass.

ok, I could to send something every minute to maintain active the
connection?
for example a ping in crontab?

thanks


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