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Re: [Openvpn-users] how can I restart openvpn?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] how can I restart openvpn?
  • From: "James Yonan" <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 05:27:46 -0000

Farkas Levente <lfarkas@xxxxxxx> said:

> hi,
> is there any way to restart openvpn without the clients recognized it?
> ie. sometimes I made some configuration on the openvpn server and then 
> restart all daemon (anyway it'd be useful ot be able to restart only 
> just one clients' server through the init script:-). my problem is that 
> after the restart openvpn clients do not reconnect to the server 
> automaticaly, rather get such error messages in the log file:
> --------------------------------
> TLS Error: Unknown data channel key ID or IP address received from
> 81.0.84.188:5005: 0
> --------------------------------
> is there any way to the clients reconnect if they loose the connections?
> thanks.

There are two ways to do this.

If you use --remote on both ends of the connection, either side can trigger a
TLS exchange if it is restarted.

Otherwise, you can use --ping and --ping-restart on the client side, if the
server doesn't have a --remote option.

James


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