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Re: [Openvpn-users] trying to improve connection stability


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] trying to improve connection stability
  • From: "Adam Pavelec" <apavelec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:46:39 -0400

On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:04 AM [GMT-5=EST], James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you are using the same cert for both clients, make sure you have
--duplicate-cn enabled.  Otherwise, OpenVPN will kill the
client-instance of a connection if a new connection using the same
certificate tries to connect (the reason for this behavior is
discussed in the archives).

Also, I've found that it's very helpful for clients connecting from the same remote network to have uniquely defined local ports. For example:


Client1
-------
lport 5101

Client2
-------
lport 5102

Client3
-------
lport 5103

...and so on.

BTW, James, my Windows clients are still experiencing the inability to reconnect after their local connection's IP address has been renewed (eg. PPPoE went down, etc.) -- I still have to either 1) redefine each client's lport, or 2) reboot the client.

-Adam