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      bwanajag
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      I'm trying to setup an offsite OVPN server and then connect to it remotely from my pfsense box.  OVPN logs on my pfsense box give me the following messages, primarily "server poll timeout".  Does this mean my offsite OVPN server is not found?  I'm able to ping the server, and know the port is open from the internet side.  But pfsense returns the following.

      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	MANAGEMENT: unix domain socket listening on /var/etc/openvpn/client4.sock
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	Initializing OpenSSL support for engine 'rdrand'
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	Control Channel Authentication: using '/var/etc/openvpn/client4.tls-auth' as a OpenVPN static key file
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	Socket Buffers: R=[42080->42080] S=[57344->57344]
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]219.76.xxx.xxx
      Apr 5 18:58:15	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]14.0.153.225:2008
      Apr 5 18:58:19	openvpn	18479	Server poll timeout, restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:19	openvpn	18479	SIGUSR1[soft,server_poll] received, process restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:19	openvpn	18479	NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
      Apr 5 18:58:19	openvpn	18479	Socket Buffers: R=[42080->42080] S=[57344->57344]
      Apr 5 18:58:19	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]219.76.xxx.xxx
      Apr 5 18:58:19	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]14.0.153.225:2008
      Apr 5 18:58:23	openvpn	18479	Server poll timeout, restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:23	openvpn	18479	SIGUSR1[soft,server_poll] received, process restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:23	openvpn	18479	NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
      Apr 5 18:58:23	openvpn	18479	Socket Buffers: R=[42080->42080] S=[57344->57344]
      Apr 5 18:58:23	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]219.76.xxx.xxx
      Apr 5 18:58:23	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]14.0.153.225:2008
      Apr 5 18:58:27	openvpn	18479	Server poll timeout, restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:27	openvpn	18479	SIGUSR1[soft,server_poll] received, process restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:27	openvpn	18479	NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
      Apr 5 18:58:27	openvpn	18479	Socket Buffers: R=[42080->42080] S=[57344->57344]
      Apr 5 18:58:27	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]219.76.xxx.xxx
      Apr 5 18:58:27	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]14.0.153.225:2008
      Apr 5 18:58:31	openvpn	18479	Server poll timeout, restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:31	openvpn	18479	SIGUSR1[soft,server_poll] received, process restarting
      Apr 5 18:58:31	openvpn	18479	NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
      Apr 5 18:58:31	openvpn	18479	Socket Buffers: R=[42080->42080] S=[57344->57344]
      Apr 5 18:58:31	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]219.76.xxx.xxx
      Apr 5 18:58:31	openvpn	18479	UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]14.0.153.225:2008
      
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