Turn Off VPN when VPN Server is not reachable in iOS 8

sumaiay

Hi,

I am facing an issue where VPN tries connecting when VPN server is down infinitely, for which i did some VPN payload changes

connect-timeout 30
connect-retry 600
connect-retry-max 1
resolv-retry 0

Even after doing these changes when VPN Server is down my normal internet goes for a toss and does not turn on for 120 seconds.
Where is it takes timeout of 60 seconds and tries twice after 5 seconds of gap.

Can someone give me a solution of disconnecting VPN after 30 seconds timeout in iOS 8?? As iOS 7 i have no issue of disconnecting with these payload settings.

Tried On Demand rules - Disconnect.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25079063/turn-off-vpn-on-demand-in-ios-6-ios-7

Any help is appreciated.

Traffic

Depending on the protocol you use:

Client Config

TCP:
- connect-retry 5
  connect-retry-max 6 ## 6 retries times 5 seconds = 30 seconds
UDP:
- ping 5
  ping-exit 30 ## exit after 30 seconds of no pings .. do not use --ping-remote in your config.

You may have to remove --keepalive from the server config as it will override client settings once connected.

sumaiay

Hey, Thanks for your response!
I really appreciate.

But my problem is not yet resolved still. After doing the following changes what you mentioned still by default VPN takes 60 seconds timeout with 2 tries totally 120 seconds and the main issue here till then i will not be able to access normal internet.
Have also set keep alive on server configuration as 30 seconds before it was 3600 seconds.
And i am using TCP protocol.

Thanks In Anticipation!

Traffic

sumaiay wrotei am using TCP protocol

Have you read the manual:

--connect-retry n
For --proto tcp-client, take n as the number of seconds to wait between connection retries (default=5).

--connect-timeout n
For --proto tcp-client, set connection timeout to n seconds (default=10).

--connect-retry-max n
For --proto tcp-client, take n as the number of retries of connection attempt (default=infinite).

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn23ManPage#index

Traffic wroteClient Config

TCP:

connect-retry 5
connect-retry-max 6 ## 6 retries times 5 seconds = 30 seconds

Perhaps you need a --connection-timeout parameter as well .. and adjust my example to your requirements.

sumaiay

Yes i have gone through the manual, therefore i did changes in my VPN Payload.
connect-timeout - 10
connect-retry-max - 0
connect-retry - 600

I assume iOS takes charge overriding the VPN Payload in the Config.