[ale] openvpn issues

David Tomaschik david at systemoverlord.com
Mon Feb 28 18:36:14 EST 2011


On 02/28/2011 08:47 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> Anyone clue me in on why openvpn is reporting this:
> 
>   **Unmatched Entries**
>      Authenticate/Decrypt packet error: bad packet ID (may be a replay): 
> [ #5932 / time = (1298228508) Sun Feb 20 14:01:48 2011 ] -- see the man 
> page entry for --no-replay and --replay-window for more info or silence 
> this warning with --mute-replay-warnings: 1 Time(s)
> 

Most likely, one of the UDP packets from the server to the client was
lost, so the client got no acknowledgement (OpenVPN does its own
ACK-like behavior) and resent a data packet.  Just a guess.

David


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