OpenVPN presistant tunnel - How often is a connection checked?

[torontob]

Hi everyone,

I want to know if there is a parameter on both the SERVER side and the CLIENT side to retry OpenVPN connection if it breaks. I know of "persist-key" and "persist-tun" but it doesn't tell me how many seconds it takes to try a connection or a re-connection.

Do I even need that? I guess if someone can explain OpenVPN technology connection part to

Thanks

[Nachtfalke]

http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html

# The keepalive directive causes ping-like
# messages to be sent back and forth over
# the link so that each side knows when
# the other side has gone down.
# Ping every 10 seconds, assume that remote
# peer is down if no ping received during
# a 120 second time period.
keepalive 10 120

[torontob]

Thanks for that.

To complicate this, is there any feature within OpenVPN that would allow me to run a script if a PING is responded? Say something that would alarm me in time to check the issue?

Thanks

[Nachtfalke]

Sorry, in this way I cannot help you. :(