GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 723866
RFE: Don't drop VPN immediately on underlying connection failure, try to continue if the connection comes up again within a sensible timeout
Last modified: 2020-11-12 14:29:17 UTC
When connected over NATing router with weak Wi-Fi signal, connection to the AP drops from time to time but it gets usually reestablished within dozens of second with the same IP as before. Meanwhile, NAT table within router is not notified about client exit so it keeps the state over the whole underlying connection period. (Similar considerations should apply to VPNs over MPTCP where the failover connection doesn't have to be the same as original one at all.) Given the case above, it would make sense to just give visual indication that the connection isn't fully operational but not to drop it till some timeout (2min? 3min? 5min?) expires, only then should be the connection dropped. This RFE would make tremendous usability boost to 2-factor-auth VPNs accessed over unstable networks. NM version: 0.9.8 @ Fedora 20
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