VPN Bonding - Will it work for this?

Unknownforce

So my brother just started College, which they provide Internet at... Well obviously, it's reallllly limited. He's trying to play games, and no go, No Steam, No Battle.net, nothing basically. Well I set up OpenVPN for him, which works to get him in and playing. However, the college or their ISP also has the brilliant idea to terminate any connection open longer than 15 Minutes... Well this is a problem obviously.. cause he'll get disconnected from any game by breaking that connection. And obviously we don't have a legitimate enough reason to have them remove this restriction...

What I was thinking about doing here is setting up a second server/interface on the same device that runs the current one, then bond the two connections, so that when one drops, the other can take over and let the second one reconnect without interruption, and vice versa.

My question is will this work?

I've never done something like this before, but it seems logical enough... Unless, of course I'm completely overthinking this and there's some other way to break/re-initiate a connection seamlessly without having to do all this work... Or trick their server to think that it's a "new" connection every so often.

The other thing I'm worried about is that this will be futile because it's just a single port connection which will probably be routed through a single VPN connection and will filter all traffic through only one of the VPN's, ultimately making this effort useless.

My only other option is to have him buy a router that has two Internet ports (There are two ports int he room he's in) that will do the Bonding automatically, but again same scenario... not sure if a single connection can be seamlessly swapped to the other interface that easily.

Any advice here would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Unknownforce

Traffic wrote
Unknownforce wroteSo my brother just started College
Maybe you should let "your brother" get an education .. then he won't be in the same situation as you .....

Maybe you should not be ignorant to facts and keep your opinions to yourself. And no, I don't care that you're a part of the Forum Team or anyone else for that matter. You want to be rude to me, I can be rude right back.

First off, you don't even know me, so it's ignorant of you to assume anything about me. By "my brother" I mean My Brother. He's not as technologically inclined as I am (at least not yet) so I'm helping him out with this.

Second, I'm not in any situation, I'm trying to be a good brother and help him out. He only has school at certain times. He takes care of his homework and his baseball obligations and then he's bored to tears for the rest of the time. So, I'm trying to keep him out trouble by keeping him on something he enjoys so he doesn't turn to the negative things in college.

Third, again, I'm in no situation, I'm 30 years old and quite successful, but that's not really relevant.

Finally, my brother is 18 years old and is fully capable of managing his time and resources and spending them where he needs to for his education and for his personal growth.

I didn't even ask for help on how to do it, I simply asked if it would work or if there was an easier way so that I didn't waste my time on it if it was already conceived and/or wouldn't work.

Unknownforce

debbie10t wroteThe purpose of this Forum is to provide help using OpenVPN.

As you obviously have a working VPN you do not need help with OpenVPN.

Unknownforce wroteHowever, the college or their ISP also has the brilliant idea to terminate any connection open longer than 15 Minutes...
Well this is a problem obviously.. cause he'll get disconnected from any game by breaking that connection.
On the one hand, we at OpenVPN know that we have no control over how people choose to use OpenVPN.
For example, trying to circumvent the Great Firewall Of China
However, this is a matter of socio-economic opinion .. We here at OpenVPN believe the people of China
deserve more freedom on the internet than their Tyrannical and Oppressive Government want to give them.

On the other hand, we do not condone the use of OpenVPN to openly "hack" private networks which belong to a third party.

With regard to your specific question about "bonding", I doubt your solution will work .. but try it anyway.
And let us know if it works .. if you like.

Unknownforce wroteAnd obviously we don't have a legitimate enough reason to have them remove this restriction...
With regard to your desire to use the College network for recreational use, you should present your case to the College
Unknownforce wroteI'm trying to be a good brother and help him out. He only has school at certain times. He takes care of his homework and his baseball obligations and then he's bored to tears for the rest of the time. So, I'm trying to keep him out trouble by keeping him on something he enjoys so he doesn't turn to the negative things in college.
and ask for permission.

A much more respectable response, and I appreciate the explanations on all counts.

Although I don't know if I would call this "hacking" per-say, (that's probably a matter of opinion that is a topic for a different discussion, which is probably irrelevant at this point) I do respect your stance on it.

I'll see what else I can do for him.

Either way, Thanks!