Can the client be configured to stop retrying when the server is down?

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Hello,

I have come across a strange situation and wonder if there is something I can do about it.

When the client is connected to the OpenVPN server and I do restart the server, the client keeps trying to connect, while the server is down.
Is there a way to configure the client so that it stops after a few times? I don't want it to keep trying indefinitely.

That would be amazing.
Thank you

TinCanTech

See --connect-retry-max in the man..

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I tried that but based on the docs, this option won't work for UDP and is only possible for TCP. I tried nonetheless, but I get the error below:

I also tried with keepalive 5 10, to try it twice within 10 seconds, but it didn't disconnect.

2020-08-25 23:00:27 89.32.123.107:16922 TLS Error: Auth Username/Password was not provided by peer
2020-08-25 23:00:27 89.32.123.107:16922 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
2020-08-25 23:00:27 89.32.123.107:16922 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, client-instance restarting

If I disconnect and connect again, it works. Hence this forced auto reconnections are futile. Is there any other way to control it for UDP, please?
Thanks

TinCanTech

TinCanTech wrote See --connect-retry-max in the man..

houmie75 wrote I tried that but based on the docs, this option won't work for UDP and is only possible for TCP

You may have read the wrong option. --connect-retry-max is protocol agnostic.