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authorArne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>2012-09-03 14:16:04 +0200
committerDavid Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>2012-09-11 18:51:01 +0200
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Document that keep alive will double the second value in server mode and give a short explanation why the value is chosen.
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: 1346674564-17260-1-git-send-email-arne@rfc2549.org URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7041 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
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@@ -1584,6 +1584,10 @@ and
.B \-\-ping-restart
in server mode configurations.
+The server timeout is set twice the value of the second argument.
+This ensures that a timeout is dectected on client side
+before the server side drops the connection.
+
For example,
.B \-\-keepalive 10 60
expands as follows: