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Diffstat (limited to 'openvpn.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | openvpn.8 | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1372,15 +1372,25 @@ to be between 100 bytes/sec and 100 Mbytes/sec. .B \-\-inactive n [bytes] Causes OpenVPN to exit after .B n -seconds of inactivity on the TUN/TAP device. The time length -of inactivity is measured since the last incoming tunnel packet. +seconds of inactivity on the TUN/TAP device. The time length of +inactivity is measured since the last incoming or outgoing tunnel +packet. If the optional .B bytes parameter is included, -exit after n seconds of activity on tun/tap device -produces a combined in/out byte count that is less than -.B bytes. +exit if less than +.B bytes +of combined in/out traffic are produced on the tun/tap device +in +.B n +seconds. + +In any case, OpenVPN's internal ping packets (which are just +keepalives) and TLS control packets are not considered +"activity", nor are they counted as traffic, as they are used +internally by OpenVPN and are not an indication of actual user +activity. .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-ping n |