Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN connection reset after 4 minutes

[Daniel Z. <dan...@gm...>]

After adding verb 5, it works... :) I will try to figure out the reason.

Thank you all.

Here is another question: I setup my own VPN because I would like to share
it with my family and friends (up to 5 PCs). Just want to know which is
better, creating 5 cert/key pairs or using duplicate-cn option? Thanks.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:53 AM, yegle <cn...@gm...> wrote:

> The "Replay-window backtrack occurred" is just a warning and can be
> suppressed.
>
> Add verb 5 in your client configure to see what's your client doing when
> inactivity timeout occurred.
>
> As I know, some ISP in China uses Ruijie's or Huawei's user management
> system, which causes some similar problems you are facing :-)
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Daniel Zhou <dan...@gm...>wrote:
>
>> Hi Yegle,
>>
>> I tried UDP as per your suggestion. It works for about 2 minutes then I
>> got "...backtrack occur [1]" error. From the 4th minutes got "inactivity
>> timeout ping-restart restarting" and the connection broken.
>>
>> BTW I added keepalive option in openvpn.conf on server. In Windows
>> Firewall settings->Advance I unchecked this connection.
>>
>> Hi Jan, I found in my Country there are quite a few expats are using
>> WiTopia which is also based on OpenVPN. So it should works.
>>
>> Leonard, I will consider your suggestion if I am not able to get this
>> done.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Leonard Parker <lo...@ho...>wrote:
>>
>>>  If all you're looking to do is view websites with country restrictions
>>> on them, or restricted by country I would suggest setting up OpenSSH and
>>> using a SOCKS5 Proxy. That way you have a fully encrypted lightweight end to
>>> end channel for just the programs you need. (Web/AIM/MSN/Skype) as you see
>>> need for.
>>>
>>> If you're trying to duck a government firewall you may find this works
>>> better as it may have scripts set to be suspicious of any connection that is
>>> obviously tunneling all traffic.
>>>
>>> I haven't failed! I've only found 10,000 ways that don't work.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:37:22 +0800
>>> From: dan...@gm...
>>>
>>> To: ope...@li...
>>> Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN connection reset after 4 minutes
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you all.
>>>
>>> Hi Dylan, I am very sure I am not connect to server on multiple PCs. The
>>> problem happened when I configured my home pc two weeks ago. Now I travelled
>>> 1000Km and try to configure on my parent's PC.
>>>
>>> Hi Eero, the VPS is on ramhost.us and I bought Nano plan<http://www.ramhost.us/?page=virtual-dedicated-server>- Guaranteed RAM 80M, Burstable 128M, Disk 2G. Is it suitable for a OpenVPN
>>> server?
>>>
>>> Hi Les, it is 4 minutes of use. Once the connection established I kept
>>> trying to access some government banned websites and it really worked for a
>>> while. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Les Mikesell <les...@gm...>wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/16/2010 9:36 AM, Daniel Zhou wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I am working my personal OpenVPN setup.
>>> >
>>> > Firstly I installed openvpn on a VPS, then install openvpn client on my
>>> > pc. The VPN works fine but unfortunately the connection is always reset
>>> > after 4 minutes.
>>>
>>> 4 minutes of use or 4 minutes of inactivity?   A NAT router or firewall
>>> in the path might time out inactive connections.  If that's the problem,
>>> the keepalive option might help.
>>>
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