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    Constant Disconnects and Time Issues

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      I am really having an issue with constant disconnects of OpenVPN clients to my pfsense box. It can be anything from 3 minutes after connection to an hour, but the connection will disconnect regularly. The pfsense box is on a leased line with ample bandwidth and the WAN connection is rock solid. There are three clients, all suffering the same issue (2 x OS X, 1 x Win 10, using a mixture of OpenVPN clients and Viscosity) - all of whom suffer the same issue from their home addresses each on FTTC connections or better.

      The main thing that I am noticing is that in the Status -> OpenVPN area, this often shows that users have been connected since a date in the future. Additionally, as you can see from the logs below, there is something internally out of sync as the logs are not in date order as you would expect.

      When I reboot the pfsense box, the times do seem to match up but very quickly get back out of sync and the disconnects persist. My timezone is set to Europe/London and I have tried changing it without success.

      Does anyone have any ideas at all please?

      Feb 6 13:01:11	openvpn	43801	Options error: option 'dhcp-option' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS])
Feb 6 13:01:11	openvpn	43801	Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: ovpnc2
Feb 6 13:01:11	openvpn	43801	Initialization Sequence Completed
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_VER=2.4.10
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_PLAT=mac
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_PROTO=2
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_NCP=2
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_CIPHERS=AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:AES-256-CBC
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZ4=1
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZ4v2=1
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZO=1
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_COMP_STUB=1
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_COMP_STUBv2=1
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_TCPNL=1
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_GUI_VER=Viscosity_1.9.1_1563
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 [myuseraccount] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]12.159.44.251:1194
Feb 6 13:23:19	openvpn		user 'myuseraccount' authenticated
Feb 6 13:23:20	openvpn	7559	myuseraccount/12.159.44.251:1194 MULTI_sva: pool returned IPv4=10.8.0.2, IPv6=(Not enabled)
Feb 6 13:32:24	openvpn	7559	myuseraccount/12.159.44.251:1194 [myuseraccount] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_VER=2.4.10
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_PLAT=mac
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_PROTO=2
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_NCP=2
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_CIPHERS=AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:AES-256-CBC
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZ4=1
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZ4v2=1
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZO=1
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_COMP_STUB=1
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_COMP_STUBv2=1
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_TCPNL=1
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_GUI_VER=Viscosity_1.9.1_1563
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn		user 'myuseraccount' authenticated
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 [myuseraccount] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]12.159.44.251:1194
Feb 6 13:27:52	openvpn	7559	myuseraccount/12.159.44.251:1194 MULTI_sva: pool returned IPv4=10.8.0.2, IPv6=(Not enabled)
Feb 6 13:57:05	openvpn	7559	myuseraccount/12.159.44.251:1194 [myuseraccount] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_VER=2.4.10
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_PLAT=mac
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_PROTO=2
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_NCP=2
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_CIPHERS=AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:AES-256-CBC
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZ4=1
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZ4v2=1
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_LZO=1
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_COMP_STUB=1
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_COMP_STUBv2=1
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_TCPNL=1
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 peer info: IV_GUI_VER=Viscosity_1.9.1_1563
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn	7559	12.159.44.251:1194 [myuseraccount] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]12.159.44.251:1194
Feb 6 13:54:06	openvpn		user 'myuseraccount' authenticated
Feb 6 13:54:07	openvpn	7559	myuseraccount/12.159.44.251:1194 MULTI_sva: pool returned IPv4=10.8.0.2, IPv6=(Not enabled)
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