On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:24:15PM -0700, James Yonan wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote:
> 
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > Another bug report received in the Debian BTS [1]. Quoting:
> > |when the link which was used for openvpn transport goes down, it hangs
> > |in a D state
> > |
> > |root      2037  0.0  0.2  3376 1620 pts/1    D    10:45   0:04 openvpn
> > |
> > |and there is no way to kill it, I have to reboot. Other programs (eg.
> > |wavemon) can handle this situation more sanely.
> 
> Any idea how to reproduce it?
> 
> OpenVPN normally has no problem with intermittent links.

No idea, James. I wasn't able to reproduce it. I can unplug the ethernet
cable, ifconfig ethX down, but OpenVPN will not hang and it will recover
once the cable is back or the interface is up.

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