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    OpenVPN for remote access Windows file copy on slow network working only one direction

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      labu73
      last edited by

      HI all,

      We have an OpenVPN setup for employees remote access over a lousy SDSL link (2Mb).

      The issue is that clients can copy files to server via VPN but there is a systematic error after few Mb.

      We have a kind of timeout... and can not resume the file copy.

      When this occurs, we can still browse server directories but copy keeps timing out.

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      After a first fail, it is generally not even possible to initiate a file copy, OpenVPN does not show any traffic due to the file copy initialisation...

      Any Ideas?

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      • RicoR
        Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
        last edited by

        How about your settings?
        This happens with all type of files?

        -Rico

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          labu73
          last edited by

          Hi,

          Here is the configuration we have. Hope this will make sense to you.

          Thks

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          • nodauN
            nodau
            last edited by

            I would say the problem is the low upload speed of 2mbit.

            Norman

            virtualized pfSense 2.7.2 HA-Cluster on vsphere 8

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              labu73
              last edited by

              It's one of my fears as well. I need to find a way for windows files service to understand that we are lacking speed and therefore not timeout...

              Any suggestions warmly welcomed.

              Thanks,

              Laurent

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              • RicoR
                Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                last edited by

                I'd try with
                Compression lz4-v2
                Send/Receive Buffer Default

                -Rico

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                  labu73
                  last edited by

                  Will do, in the mean time I got something more stable using limiters on in and out at half our DSL capability.

                  Seems like when the link is saturated, the copy get frozen and not when the limiters are reducing.

                  Might very well be due to failover of our SDSL WAN to ADSL second link activates (automatically in suppose due to poor ping)

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