[ale] Linux/Windows VPN?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:19, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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.
> 
> WTF?  Memory exhaustation.  
The version of FreesWAN I was using had a stable network connection, but
showed some memory leakage as the ram usage would grow with each
connection and not be released after a disconnect. That has been fixed
in a later release. Unfortunately, the later release is geared toward a
newer kernel version which I can't use due to other hardware issues
(#&%$ onboard @^$$ proprietary chips running poor performance RAID).

> Sounds like someone needs ot comb the code
> for issues.  This sounds more like the windows service restart excuse
> I hear.
> 
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> 
> Possibly.  I've never had issues with SMB through tunnels.  
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