Open vpn client prevents WiFi to reconnect after sleep

nic_808

Hey,
I have been having this issue for as long as I have OpenVpn installed on my windows machine and I finally decided to see what s going on.
Windows 10/11 have the same behavior
Open vpn client: 3.3.2
Wifi : Killer AX1650w , driver Intel 22.100.0.3

Each time the machine goes to sleep or standby or hibernate AND the VPN is On , then when it resumes, the WiFi is disconnected But the Vpn is still On doing nothing until it times out. Then it eventually drops and my Wifi can restarts and VPN reconnects.
To speed this up, I manually toggle Off/On the VPN but it's annoying.

I am looking into a way to tell the VPN to properly shutdown when my network is down ( during stand By, Sleep or Hibernate).
I don't see the point of having the VPN ON if the Network is Down.

Is there a way to have the Vpn follow the Network State ? ( If it's down, then turn off) .

Thank you

TinCanTech

That actually is the way openvpn works.

openvpn_inc

Hi nic,

You might be interested in the proprietary OpenVPN Connect client, which is made to reconnect when a machine wakes up. It is fully interoperable with open source servers, but it's easiest to use with inline config files. The commercial Access Server software and OpenVPN Cloud service do this for you, but it can also be done manually for connecting to open source servers. See the section on "INLINE FILE SUPPORT" in the openvpn(8) manual.

regards, rob0