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Bug 564196 - OpenVpn Missing options result in VPN disconnections
OpenVpn Missing options result in VPN disconnections
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 484315
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: VPN: openvpn
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-12-12 00:11 UTC by Matthieu Loll
Modified: 2009-02-24 00:18 UTC
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Description Matthieu Loll 2008-12-12 00:11:55 UTC 
The default value used by OpenVPN for "reneg-sec" is 3600 seconds.
Currently there is no way to change this value in the OpenVPN plugin for NetworkManager.
Also, the option "auth-retry" should be possible to be set to "interact".
These 2 settings are needed in case of OpenVPN used with an RSA token, for proper renewal of authentication.
With these 2 options missing, the result is that the openvpn daemon tries to renegotiate authentication after 3600 seconds without prompting the user for new credentials, which fails and ends in the VPN being disconnected.
Setting "reneg-sec" to a much higher value would also avoid re-entering the credentials too often (a sane default would be 43200)
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2009-02-24 00:18:07 UTC 
Duping to 484315

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 484315 ***