VPN with delay

[survietamine]

hi,
i'm going to set-up an OpenVPN server with routed mode (tun).
One of the criteria for the user of the VPN is that each connection can
only last 20 minutes.
I don't know if i may specify that in the OpenVPN configuration or
iptables or something else.
Could you please help me about that ?

Thanks a lot.

[Chris Davies]

survietamine <sur.vie.ta.mine@fr.e.e.fr> wrote:
> i'm going to set-up an OpenVPN server with routed mode (tun).
> One of the criteria for the user of the VPN is that each connection can
> only last 20 minutes.

Do you mean that the OpenVPN connection *must* be (forcefully)
disconnected after it's been up for 20 minutes?

Chris

[survietamine]

Chris Davies a écrit :
> survietamine <sur.vie.ta.mine@fr.e.e.fr> wrote:
>> i'm going to set-up an OpenVPN server with routed mode (tun).
>> One of the criteria for the user of the VPN is that each connection can
>> only last 20 minutes.
>
> Do you mean that the OpenVPN connection *must* be (forcefully)
> disconnected after it's been up for 20 minutes?
>
> Chris

hi and thanks,
yes i meant that.
Each connexion may only last 20 min.

best regards.

[Chris Davies]

> survietamine <sur.vie.ta.mine@fr.e.e.fr> wrote:
> One of the criteria for the user of the VPN is that each connection can
> only last 20 minutes.

Conversation determined that:
> the OpenVPN connection *must* be (forcefully) disconnected after it's
> been up for 20 minutes

How exact must this "20 minutes" be? Could it be 21 minutes? What about
25 minutes, or even more? Could it be 19 minutes?

Chris

[survietamine]

Chris Davies wrote :

> Conversation determined that:
>> the OpenVPN connection *must* be (forcefully) disconnected after it's
>> been up for 20 minutes
>
> How exact must this "20 minutes" be? Could it be 21 minutes? What about
> 25 minutes, or even more? Could it be 19 minutes?
>
> Chris

it could be 19 minutes, 20 minutes is the maximum.
Do you think i have to manage that with an crontab that kill processes
or maybe it's ok with iptables or something else ?

[Chris Davies]

Conversation determined that:
> the OpenVPN connection *must* be (forcefully) disconnected after it's
> been up for 20 minutes

> it could be 19 minutes, 20 minutes is the maximum.
> Do you think i have to manage that with an crontab that kill processes
> or maybe it's ok with iptables or something else ?

Take a look at the management interface to OpenVPN. It may be able to
give you the sort of information you need, in terms of which processes
have reached a 20 minute age. You'll then need to parse that (as you
say, from a regular cron job running perhaps every minute or so) and
tell the management interface which processes to kill.

Chris