El Capitan's VPN Disconnects
Hello!
I'm having a minor issue. For certain reasons I'd rather not have to type out, I had to go with OSX's built in VPN setup. It works beautifully with PIA for what I need it to do, except for one small thing. Occasionally, randomly, I will be disconnected from the PIA server. I can manually reconnect without issue, but I'd rather not have to keep watch over the connection to make sure it is connected.
Anyone know of a fix?
Thanks in advance!
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I'm having a minor issue. For certain reasons I'd rather not have to type out, I had to go with OSX's built in VPN setup. It works beautifully with PIA for what I need it to do, except for one small thing. Occasionally, randomly, I will be disconnected from the PIA server. I can manually reconnect without issue, but I'd rather not have to keep watch over the connection to make sure it is connected.
Anyone know of a fix?
Thanks in advance!
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Also, try connecting via ethernet (if you're not already), disable your wireless, and see if that makes any difference. If it does then the problem is likely that you're having wireless dropouts that exceed the reset time of your vpn connection. That can happen if you're using a cheap wireless router or during times of especially heavy router usage.
OpenVPN (which is what the PIA app uses) when setup to use UDP is much more robust in handling network dropouts. So if you can use that instead you're better off.
I'm on L2TP/IpSec using ethernet with a decent router. Thanks for the info though, I'll try to do some workarounds on the PIA app. I've got a killswitch / interface binder that works beautifully with OSX, maybe I can change a few lines of code to get it to work with the PIA app..
Cheers!
--update: I got my setup to work with the PIA app. After a little digging around I found that it was using network interface utun0 (which is a useful thing to know for binding specific programs to the dynamic IP). So the important things I needed are implemented. However, the PIA app seems to fare worse with the router I am stuck with (Bell Home Hub 1000). I'm not getting the random and intermittent disconnects (thanks Tome~ and UDP~) but the speed is erratic. It seems the router liked the connection from OSX's client better and has been finicky with port forwarding properly for the things I am sending through the PIA app.
But that may just be the router....