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    OpenVPN client expires every 24h and does not restart

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      paul.bargiel last edited by

      Team,

      I am using OpenVPN client on pfSense to connect to an OpenVPN access server. the tunnel works fine but every 24hours it expires and does not restart automatically. I need to manually restart the service to have the tunnel connect again. Is there something wrong with the below configuration? what am i missing? I am using pfSense 2.2.5 in AWS

      dev ovpnc1
      verb 6
      dev-type tun
      tun-ipv6
      dev-node /dev/tun1
      writepid /var/run/openvpn_client1.pid
      #user nobody
      #group nobody
      script-security 3
      daemon
      keepalive 10 60
      ping-timer-rem
      persist-tun
      persist-key
      proto tcp-client
      cipher BF-CBC
      auth SHA1
      up /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup
      down /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkdown
      local 10.8.48.9
      tls-client
      client
      lport 0
      management /var/etc/openvpn/client1.sock unix
      remote myopenvpnserver.com 443
      auth-user-pass /var/etc/openvpn/client1.up
      ca /var/etc/openvpn/client1.ca
      cert /var/etc/openvpn/client1.cert
      key /var/etc/openvpn/client1.key
      tls-auth /var/etc/openvpn/client1.tls-auth 1
      comp-lzo adaptive
      passtos
      resolv-retry infinite

      Here is the error message i get after 24 hours
      openvpn[16475]: AUTH: Received control message: AUTH_FAILED,SESSION: Your session has expired, please reauthenticate

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