[ale] Linux/Windows VPN?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 09:45, Matthew Brown wrote:
> Why do you restart the VPN daily?

VPN's can be ram intensive and that usage leads to possible memory
leaks. By restarting just before the start of business, it gives a
better chance of the VPN staying up all day. It also forces a reconnect
on anyone actually connected so as to drop the unused connections and
free up some resources.

Also, there is some monitoring code that watches the startup process and
notifies me if things don't start right. By doing it before business, I
can (usually) have any problems fixed before anyone notices. I don't
have the monitor running through the VPN to verify the connection as
FreesWAN has shown itself to be very reliable and stable. The biggest
headache has been the samba usage through the VPN. Samba on this
particular machine has been a bit more unstable than I would like. But
it is looking like the instability may be more related to a flaky
motherboard than software as of late. 

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