On 20/12/14 00:47, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > packets and wait for answer (for a certain period of time). So, if > your home internet connection drops out for , say, 20 seconds then the > OpenVPN connection remains intact and so will all TCP-based sessions > that are running over it.
Don't be so modest. I run openvpn as a service (ie it's always running) and when I'm at home, I'm always logged into 5-10 SSH sessions open at work (via openvpn). I then suspend (ie sleep) my laptop and go to work - 20-60 minutes. I then un-sleep my laptop, it gets an entirely different local IP, openvpn reconnects to the vpn router, gets the same IP it had when at home and lo! my SSH sessions are still there and still respond. I can have SSH sessions last *weeks* with me shuttling between home and work every day. Awesome :-) BTW: you need to have sticky openvpn client IPs for that trick to work of course -- Cheers Jason Haar Corporate Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
