Improvement - OpenVPN - KeepAlive option

Started by romain, January 04, 2016, 05:39:06 PM

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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 !

January 05, 2016, 07:17:28 AM #1 Last Edit: January 05, 2016, 07:19:31 AM by mf
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

Apologies for digging up such an old post, but I am interested in this as well. Any chance for getting this option?