Client reconnect after computer sleep/suspend

JulioQc

Hello,

I current have the 2.3.10 windows client set to automatically connect on system boot and network disconnect reconnect but I can't seem to get it working after a computer suspend/resume.

All I get is this message and I have to manually reconnect:

From my readings, I think this is a known issue but a confirmation would be appreciated. Any idea on how to fix or workaround this?

FYI, this a sample of my client config:

dev tun
tun-ipv6
persist-tun
persist-key
cipher AES-256-CBC
auth SHA1
tls-client
client
resolv-retry 10
remote ************* 1194 udp
lport 0
verify-x509-name "**************" name
auth-user-pass **************
ca *************.crt
cryptoapicert "SUBJ:**********"
tls-auth ****************.key 1
ns-cert-type server
comp-lzo yes
keepalive 5 30

JulioQc

Please let me know if I should include anything else to help understand

TinCanTech

Unfortunately, there is an outstanding bug regarding sleep/resume with windows.

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/71

All details are welcome .. I for one have not suffered from this problem. (So far)

JulioQc

Thank you for confirming my suspicions!

All I can say is that it was working fine when my laptop came with windows 8 and upgraded to 8.1 but the issue appeared last fall when I updated to windows 10.
I reinstalled the client afterwards and, although probably not related, did a fresh install of pfSense (for other reasons) but the issue persisted.

rseiler

I'm a little unclear after looking at the old (since resolved bug): what is the current expected behavior for this? If you put the machine to sleep when connected to the VPN, and you later wake the PC (even beyond any server-side inactivity timeouts that maybe be set), what should happen? Stay disconnected or reconnect? I'm seeing the latter, but I'm not sure that it's actually supposed to be happening when the OpenVPN service is in its default Manual/Not Started state (if the service is started, I understand that one of its main purposes *is* to try to reconnect).