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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: d tbsky <tbskyd@gmail.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: roaming and ddns dynamic ip
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:28:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171122172827.GB26189@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC6SzHKzraOBNh0B9C9PUojSJy2r2XvfqehzEnmzzK5GJeuG6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 00:00:51 +0800,
  d tbsky <tbskyd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>when client is behind firewall via nat to internet, and server has
>dynamic ip, I don't think keepalive will help. since the changed
>server can not connect to client, it needs client to initial the
>connection. under openvpn, keepalive can detect broken link and try to
>restart itself, then client can reconnect to server automatically.

If both sides are using keep alives it could help. It won't work if both sides 
change IP addresses between keep alives. And if the client is turned off 
when the server changes IP addresses that is going to apply.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-22 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-22 10:53 d tbsky
2017-11-22 11:59 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-11-22 12:51   ` d tbsky
2017-11-22 13:14     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-11-22 15:49     ` Lonnie Abelbeck
2017-11-22 16:00       ` d tbsky
2017-11-22 16:39         ` Matthias Urlichs
2017-11-22 17:28         ` Bruno Wolff III [this message]

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