id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 940 OpenVPN >2.4 Restart pause, 300 second(s) too high lexios "Hello, a change implemented in OpenVPN client for Windows causes serious issues to our fleet since it takes 5 minutes for the OpenVPN service to kick in after a machine is woken from Sleep or Hibernation. This didn't happen in the past versions. According to Gert Doering, the issue is: ""Restart-delay is now exponentially growing - that is: it starts with a quick restart, and if your server keeps not working, it goes up to a maximum value, to avoid filling the log files all around with repetitive messages."" [http://openvpn-users.narkive.com/U1yOyWMk/openvpn-2-4-restart-pause-and-hup-bug] [https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=24878&p=72866] This was implemented by Selva Nair as ""Exponentially back off on repeated connect retries"" on 2.4alpha2. [https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/ChangesInOpenvpn24] I believe that this change was implemented on 2.4 or later version and this is now a problem as there is no way to control this behavior and go back to the previous 2 seconds restart-pause. Solution to this would a registry setting to control this resart-pause wait time. Thank you " User question closed minor alpha 2.4 tap-windows OpenVPN 2.4.3 (Community Ed) Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) notabug