On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 09:49:48PM +0100, koos vriezen wrote: > > > I've set up OpenVPN to tunnel all traffic on my N900 and it works > > beautifully with /etc/network/if-up / down scripts. > > > > Problem is, while OpenVPN is connecting, the IM clients all connect and > > then when the tunnel is up and default route is re-set it takes ages for > > them to time-out and reconnect. > > > > Is there any way to delay actions that happen on network availability (IM > > connect, mail sync, etc.)? > > Interesting, I have a similar problem with kmplayer's download page > detecting the network connection has gone. > Looking a bit inside /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ I see that tcp_keepalive_* > might be useful in this respect. According to > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/usingkeepalive.html the > connection is terminated 9*75+7200 secs, i.e. about 2:11:15. > No idea if lowering these values will help though.
I'd rather not tweak the actual timeouts but delay the connections til after the VPN is up. Another possible solution I thought about is faking a network disconnect/connect over dbus after th VPN is up to make all apps reconnect. Thoughts? /olle _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
