Re: [Openvpn-devel] proper "logout" support for the server?
On 09/24/2010 07:05 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > it's already available: > --explicit-exit-notify > this is needed only for UDP based connections, as the server will know > when a TCP connection has ended. > Ha! So it is. Given the amount of time I've read the manpage, I'm surprised I've missed it :-} -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
Re: [Openvpn-devel] proper "logout" support for the server?
Jason Haar wrote: Hi there Minor feature request. When a user ends their openvpn client session, shouldn't it be possible to send one last command to the server - a "logout" command? That way the server can clean up the session much faster than waiting for a keepalive timeout cycle... (the problem I see is that we make extensive use of "--up"/etc scripts and a user can sometimes do several "up->down->up" in a row - which leads to "flapping" checks. If the server was told the client was leaving, this would reduce these issues). it's already available: --explicit-exit-notify this is needed only for UDP based connections, as the server will know when a TCP connection has ended. HTH, JJK
[Openvpn-devel] proper "logout" support for the server?
Hi there Minor feature request. When a user ends their openvpn client session, shouldn't it be possible to send one last command to the server - a "logout" command? That way the server can clean up the session much faster than waiting for a keepalive timeout cycle... (the problem I see is that we make extensive use of "--up"/etc scripts and a user can sometimes do several "up->down->up" in a row - which leads to "flapping" checks. If the server was told the client was leaving, this would reduce these issues). -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
