On 12/03/2017 10:00 PM, Chris Laprise wrote:
> On 12/03/2017 10:30 PM, Michael Siepmann wrote:
>>   On 12/02/2017 11:14 PM, Chris Laprise wrote:
>>> Looking at openvpn entries in 'journalctl' can give you a better idea.
>>> I've seen instances where openvpn versions starting with 2.4 have this
>>> bad reaction to disconnection (which is what sleep/wake is in this
>>> case); with openvpn 2.3 you could count on it to keep
>>> going/re-connecting. But there may also be an issue with the way
>>> Qubes/Xen are handling the virtual interfaces between VMs; the
>>> symptoms remind me of basic networking problems many of us have
>>> experienced with prior Qubes releases, where only VM restarts would
>>> re-build inter-VM links correctly.
>>>
>>> But if there isn't a basic networking problem, moving to a
>>> service-based config will be more robust and should keep openvpn
>>> running. One way to do this is to have your rc.local script start
>>> openvpn with systemd-run (and the right options), but I've already
>>> created a project that uses a full systemd config to manage VPN
>>> processes...
>>>
>>> https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-vpn-support
>>>
>>> Setup is much easier than the vpn doc, though it currently only works
>>> with Qubes 3.2 which I'm guessing you're using. The usual 'systemctl
>>> start/stop/status' commands give you control over the
>>> qubes-vpn-handler.service that manages openvpn.
>>>
>> Thank you! So far this seems to be working fine, automatically
>> reconnecting after resume. Any chance of getting this approach mentioned
>> on https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vpn ?
>
> Great! I think it could be linked in the revised doc once the Qubes
> R4.0 issues are worked out.
>

Recently the "LINK IS UP" notification has been staying visible until I
manually close it.  At first it wasn't doing that. Are you seeing that
too? Could a recent update have caused this?

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