That's especially true on large, multi-instance openvpn setups. I've created attached patch to add a per session random component to the --reneg-sec intervals so that renegotiation is evenly spread over time. It is configured by simply adding a second value to --reneg-sec as described in the --help text:

Try reneg-sec 0, by default openvpn will renegotiate keys every hour, if you're using anything like two-factor auth it won't succeed and you'll have to reconnect. level 2. Original Poster 2 points · 1 year ago. Exactly. So, you're doing it by running. vpn - Config import on network-manager-openvpn - Ask Ubuntu client dev tun proto tcp remote miami.proxpn.com 443 resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun ca ca.crt cert client.crt key client.key cipher BF-CBC keysize 512 comp-lzo verb 4 mute 5 tun-mtu 1500 mssfix 1450 auth-user-pass reneg-sec 0 # If you are connecting through an # HTTP proxy to reach the actual OpenVPN # server, put the DUO - Setting up Multi-Factor Authentication for OpenVPN To circumvent this issue, type reneg-sec [numerical value of your choosing] under Advanced Configuration > Custom options in your OpenVPN Server Configuration. You can enter any value [in seconds] you wish to add here. To completely disable, enter value of 0.

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20) If you have CSF on your server, open the OpenVPN port number 1194 through the firewall and enter the following commands. iptables -A FORWARD -m state –state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -s 10.8.0.0/24 -j ACCEPT

I use openvpn server ver. 2.10 and client 2.10 too. I use credentials (with freeradius) and certificates for authentication. When i connects, after 3600 sec(1 hour) connection drops. I think, the problem is in reneg-sec default option. To avoid this kind of behaviour, it's just a matter of telling openvpn to never renegociate a TLS session and keep the existing one alive, if you combine keepalive directive and reneg-sec 0, you're going to have a stable connection, with no renegociation whatsoever. old new 34 34.\" .ft -- normal face: 35 35.\" .in +|-{n} -- indent: 36 36.\" 37 .TH openvpn 8 "25 August 2016": 37.TH openvpn 8 "28 March 2017": 38 So unless openvpn is started from a session where the memlock limit is increased to a large enough value, do not drop privileges when using mlock. The required limit is dependent on client config, libraries linked in etc., but 100MB should good enough -- I see a virtual memory peak of 55MB for an instance running here and 27 MB for another. reneg-sec 0 10. Click Save to save the VPN connection. 11. Navigate to Status -> OpenVPN. 12. If Status doesn't show as "up", click the circular arrow icon under Actions to restart the service. If it still does not come up, navigate to Diagnostics -> Reboot to restart the device. 13. Ensure that Status shows as "up" before continuing. 14. Omit the -reneg-sec 60 option to use OpenVPN's default key renegotiation interval of one hour. Routing: Assuming you can ping across the tunnel, the next step is to route a real subnet over the secure tunnel. Suppose that may and june have two network interfaces each, one connected to the internet, and the other to a private network. OpenVPN Connect is the free and full-featured VPN Client that is developed in-house. It is the official Client for all our VPN solutions. Any other OpenVPN protocol compatible Server will work with it too. Our desktop client software is directly distributed from our Access Server User portal. Click your client below to get started.