Why does OpenVPN keep timing out?

[altiris]

I have OpenVPN setup on pfsense and I have a client that is hooked up with an ethernet, running linux mint 17, that connects to it. After about an hour or so (I leave things downloading/uploading then I go AFK) it times out. I have tried adding the reneg-sec 0 to my openvpn client conf but it still timedout today. I am using udp port 1194.

Here is my openvpn client configuration

dev tun
persist-tun
persist-key
cipher AES-256-CBC
auth SHA1
tls-client
client
remote ExternalIPHERE 1194 udp
lport 0
verify-x509-name "pfrouter" name
auth-user-pass
auth-nocache
reneg-sec 0
ns-cert-type server
comp-lzo adaptive

ive commented out the certificate parts

[altiris]

So….anyone have any ideas?

[bennyc]

a wilde guess: in your OVPN server, is the setting of "Client Settings >Dynamic IP" checked?

[altiris]

@bennyc:

a wilde guess: in your OVPN server, is the setting of "Client Settings >Dynamic IP" checked?

This setting "Allow connected clients to retain their connections if their IP address changes." No it is not checked. I wlll check it and see if that helps.

[altiris]

Sadly this did not work