[ale] Linux/Windows VPN?

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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:01:06AM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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.
RAM intensive does not lead to memory leaks.  BUGS lead to memory leaks
When I create a daemon I test for memory leaks.  Leaks found are plugged.

> 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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