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

[Jan J. K. <ja...@ni...>]

Daniel Zhou wrote:
> After adding verb 5, it works... :) I will try to figure out the reason.
>
with  'verb 5' it works ?!? are you sure nothing changed in the local 
network? What happens if you now switch between 'verb 3' and 'verb 5' ?
If 'verb 5' keeps working for you then perhaps you're overloading your 
local internet connection....

> 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.
I'd create 5 different certs so I could keep track of who does what ...

cheers,

JJK

>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:53 AM, yegle <cn...@gm... 
> <mailto: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... <mailto: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... <mailto: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...
>             <mailto:dan...@gm...>
>
>             To: ope...@li...
>             <mailto: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 <http://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... <mailto: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.
>