VPN on OSX disconnects after precisely 2 minutes and 30 seconds on specific network
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Published on 2013-02-02T12:05:01Z
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When connecting to my own VPN server on a specific network, called public-network
, my Mac disconnects the VPN connection after 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
I have performed several tests and this is the result:
- It works fine until the 2:30 mark
- It doesn't matter which Mac I use, it still disconnects
- It doesn't matter which client I use, all of the following does the same: OSX system client, HMA! Pro VPN and Shimo
- It doesn't matter which protocol I use, at least all of these protocols does the same: PPTP, OpenVPN and L2TP over IPSec
- The same thing happens using my own VPN server and HMA!'s VPN server.
- All other clients (Windows/iPhone) can use any of these VPN servers and protocols without problem on
public-network
- On OSX, all the protocols, clients and servers works fine on any other network
So it seems that it is the combination of OSX, VPN & public-network
that causes this.
This is the syslog from my VPN server, when the disconnection happens:
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pptpd[31400]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl packet length.
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pptpd[31400]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header (exit)
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pptpd[31400]: CTRL: CTRL read failed
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pptpd[31400]: CTRL: Reaping child PPP[31401]
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pppd[31401]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pppd[31401]: Modem hangup
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pppd[31401]: Connect time 2.5 minutes.
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pppd[31401]: Sent 3963649 bytes, received 362775 bytes.
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pppd[31401]: MPPE disabled
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pppd[31401]: Connection terminated.
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pppd[31401]: Exit.
Feb 2 12:04:32 raspberrypi pptpd[31400]: CTRL: Client <ip-adress> control connection finished
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