On 6 June 2013 11:53, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop mailto:mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
I don't have to do this much from Windows, but the last time I tried, the restart options on openvpn made it much more reliable than trying to keep PPTP or a ssh tunnel up. It can be installed as a service or it can be started from a system tray icon. It ran for years and rarely needed any admin intervention, which was just as well as it was a 2 day trip for its admin to reach it!
To be fair the PPTP configuration I have now seems to be pretty "reliable", in as much as the server was kicking the client off for inactivity (which I hadn't realised) and looking at the logs it faithfully re-connected all through the night.
I think I'll put some monitoring in place and worry about it if it fails to work as expected.