GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 639560
User interfaces limits the user to a maximum of 10000 seconds for reneg-sec
Last modified: 2011-01-18 11:15:11 UTC
The user interface allows the user to just set a maximum of 10000 seconds for the OpenVPN reneg-sec setting. This causes problems at least for me and some other colleagues at work. We are connecting via RSA SecurID token to the company network and can not cache the passwords. Thus a connection which is longer established would be more useful for us. We pointed out the maximum limit is set in this file (on ubuntu 10.04): /usr/share/gnome-vpn-properties/openvpn/nm-openvpn-dialog.glade We adjusted the value to at least 86400 seconds/1 day. Higher values might also be useful.
No idea why the 10000 value was chosen. We should bump this up to at least 100,000 or more.
Upper limit increased to 604800 (one week). It was actually in code already, but UI limited that to 10000. Pushed upstream: 7a9165addb42f0d9b953b2445078219a9457a2b3