Show HN: Encrypted VPN in 2k lines of Go

Re:Show HN: Encrypted VPN in 2k lines of Go by thyrsus on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:48AM (#15409588)

It appears all the ISPs I use have figured out how to kill OpenVPN after a few Mbytes have passed, resulting in annoying VPN service interruptions and restarts (I need to figure out how to restart it automatically) - and the browser reacts to the interrupted transfer by restarting it on the now VPNless network connection. Obscurity might be a defense against this (but wouldn't be if one were targeted instead of getting caught in a driftnet).

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Re:Show HN: Encrypted VPN in 2k lines of Go by _joel on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:24AM (#15416996)

That's not been my experience with OpenVPN. It's setup to reconnect to the VPN and only route traffic via the VPN (separate box, actually a repurposed old laptop). Take a look at ping and ping-restart options

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Re:Show HN: Encrypted VPN in 2k lines of Go by thyrsus on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:44AM (#15463678)

Thanks for the suggestions, but decreasing the ping interval only made the VPN fail faster, and there was no difference in behavior between ping-restart and ping-exit :-(.

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