From 341e6bb67f072731d75769ce875633e544544062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Schwabe Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:16:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 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 --- doc/openvpn.8 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index f586744e6..fee24d6a0 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -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: -- 2.47.2