OpenVPN replay-persist

[watercooled]

I've just been tinkering with my VPN setup and tried adding the following line

replay-persist persist.txt

However, the daemon doesn't seem to be creating the file, and even if I manually create it with open permissions, nothing seems to be written to it despite opening/closing sessions.

Does anyone have any experience with this option and/or know what's meant to happen? I can't even see any mention of it in the logs with fairly high verbosity.

ipp.txt is defined similarly and seems to be functioning fine.

Thanks

[peterb]

There is a bit of info in the msn psge.

I found the basic open vpn manual here

http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-so...x-manpage.html

The use of the replay-persist file is mentioned. Are you using it as a directive in a conf file?

[watercooled]

Yeah that's the line I inserted into the config file. The man page doesn't really go into explaining the use of the file etc, but I assumed, if anything, it should work with a pre-created file with 777 permissions.

It just doesn't seem to be touching the file or even referencing it in the log files, let alone any errors AFAICT.

[peterb]

Are you using the secret or tls-auth modes for the encryption? The man file mentions that as a pre-requisite.

[watercooled]

Yeah I'm using tls-auth so it should be working AFAICT.