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OPENVPN: Kill or Halt?

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hugoeyng
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Hello Friends.

In OPENVPN context, what is the diference between "halt client connection" and "kill client connection"?
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Hugo Eyng
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jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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Kill disconnects the client and it's free to immediately reconnect (e.g. maybe to the next server in its list if it has multiple)

Halt tells the client it should terminate completely (e.g. stop the process) so it will not reconnect.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/monitoring/status/openvpn.html#ssl-tls-client-server-mode
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