keepalive option does not work completely?

IPTRACE

Hello!

I've set

keepalive 10 30

option on server side and it works.
But It does not work when openvpn-gui starts without network connection (no Internet) and there is no connection to OpenVPN server.
When Internet starts to work OpenVPN waits 120 seconds intervals to connect to server, not 30 seconds as keepalive value set on server.

So I suppose default option 120 seconds works until config get keepalive from server.
I've tried to set keepalive in client config but without success.

How could I workaround that?
I don't want to wait 120 seconds intervals if no server connection is available.

IPTRACE

Worse that I thought.
When I was disconnected due to Internet failure and connected again to other wireless network I had to wait 120 seconds to reconnect.
Is it ok when I have keepalive set on 10 30?

During no Internet available.

Mon Jan 02 12:46:10 2017 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]10.10.10.10:1194 [nonblock]
Mon Jan 02 12:46:10 2017 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1483357570,TCP_CONNECT,,,,,,

Internet is available but wait 120 seconds to reconnect.

Mon Jan 02 12:48:11 2017 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]10.10.10.10:1194 failed: Connection timed out (WSAETIMEDOUT)
Mon Jan 02 12:48:11 2017 SIGUSR1[connection failed(soft),init_instance] received, process restarting
Mon Jan 02 12:48:11 2017 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1483357691,RECONNECTING,init_instance,,,,,
Mon Jan 02 12:48:11 2017 Restart pause, 5 second(s)

Pushed below values to client.

ping 10,ping-restart 30

IPTRACE

I've found the following entry for client to change reconnect time in seconds.

connect-timeout 5

I've tried to push the option via server but no success.

push "connect-timeout 5"

does not work.
Is there any other option to force client to use connect timeout from server side?

TinCanTech

IPTRACE wroteI've set
keepalive 10 30
option on server side and it works.
But It does not work when openvpn-gui starts without network connection (no Internet) and there is no connection to OpenVPN server.

--keepalive is a server side option which sets server and client --ping and --ping-timeout upon successful connection to a server. It cannot effect a client which is not connected

I believe the option you need is --server-poll-timeout :geek:

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

IPTRACE

Thanks for reply.
What is the difference between connect-timeout N and server-poll-timeout N?