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Archive => 15.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: romain on January 04, 2016, 05:39:06 pm

Title: Improvement - OpenVPN - KeepAlive option
Post by: romain on January 04, 2016, 05:39:06 pm
Hello there,

It seems that in certain case we need to change the keepalive mode to a ping manually timeout specified (ping, ping-exit, ping-restart).

However, there is no way to disable this functionnality. The instruction keepalive is automatically added. It should be a good improvement to disable it in order to specify the ping value manually.

Do you think it could be possible ?

Thank you and best wishes for this new year !
Title: Re: Improvement - OpenVPN - KeepAlive option
Post by: 8191 on January 05, 2016, 07:17:28 am
Hi,
I also ran into a similar need for this option: I want to gracefully shutdown the tunnel if the remote host intentionally goes down. Currently that's not possible with the setting ping-restart. As far as I found out, OpenVPN does not allow overriding or disabling previously set options, so there is currently no clean way a user can override this setting from the GUI.
So I also opt for this additional configuration option.

Manuel
Title: Re: Improvement - OpenVPN - KeepAlive option
Post by: minime on January 03, 2017, 01:34:48 pm
Apologies for digging up such an old post, but I am interested in this as well. Any chance for getting this option?
Title: Re: Improvement - OpenVPN - KeepAlive option
Post by: franco on March 02, 2017, 08:33:55 am
If it's not in yet please create a feature request :)

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues


Cheers,
Franco