Eddie disconnects during Mac's idle periods

[misamarumaru 0]

Hi

 

When leaving my machine idle for some time (I used a Terminal command in OS X 10.10 Yosemite to prevent the machine from sleeping) I notice I sometimes get disconnected from AirVPN, and thus from an applications I use that will exit itself if it loses a connection for too long. It's problematic.

 

If I'm using the machine this problem does not occur.

 

I have included a segment of the log file that covers the activity around the moment of disconnection. I've made part of it bold where it seems there's useful information.

 

Could anyone advise why this might be happening?

 

I modified the Mac's sleep routine to not go to sleep during inactivity or when I close the device's lid. If I had to guess, it seems although the computer doesn't put itself to sleep when the lid is closed, the Eddie client thinks it should. 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

. 2015.06.22 10:06:55 - OpenVPN > Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

. 2015.06.22 10:06:55 - OpenVPN > Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

. 2015.06.22 10:06:55 - OpenVPN > Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

. 2015.06.22 10:06:55 - OpenVPN > Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

. 2015.06.22 10:06:55 - OpenVPN > Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 4096 bit RSA

. 2015.06.22 10:07:41 - Updating systems & servers data ...

. 2015.06.22 10:07:42 - Systems & servers data update completed

. 2015.06.22 10:37:43 - Updating systems & servers data ...

. 2015.06.22 10:37:44 - Systems & servers data update completed

. 2015.06.22 11:04:42 - OpenVPN > [server] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting

. 2015.06.22 11:04:42 - OpenVPN > SIGUSR1[soft,ping-restart] received, process restarting

. 2015.06.22 11:04:42 - OpenVPN > Restart pause, 5 second(s)

. 2015.06.22 11:04:42 - OS X - PF rules updated, reloading

! 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - Disconnecting

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - Management - Send 'signal SIGTERM'

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - OpenVpn Management > SUCCESS: signal SIGTERM thrown

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - OpenVpn Management > >FATAL:Assertion failed at misc.c:788

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - OpenVPN > MANAGEMENT: CMD 'signal SIGTERM'

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - OpenVPN > MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - OpenVPN > Assertion failed at misc.c:788

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - OpenVPN > Exiting due to fatal error

. 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - Connection terminated.

I 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - DNS of a network adapter restored to original settings (Bluetooth DUN)

I 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - DNS of a network adapter restored to original settings (Wi-Fi)

I 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - DNS of a network adapter restored to original settings (iPhone USB)

I 2015.06.22 11:04:43 - DNS of a network adapter restored to original settings (Bluetooth PAN)

I 2015.06.22 11:04:53 - Checking authorization ...

! 2015.06.22 11:04:53 - Connecting to Dabih (United Kingdom, Manchester)

[Staff 9765]

Hello,

 

you need to check your Yosemite settings, please see also here:

http://superuser.com/questions/867370/mac-os-x-yosemite-how-to-disable-automatic-logout-when-idle

 

Make sure that when idle, Yosemite does not disconnect WiFi and/or turn off physical network card. From the logs, it's clear that communications to/from the VPN server are blocked.

 

Also remember all the bugs of Yosemite in WiFi, in versions 10.10 and 10.10.1 (most of such bugs, if not all, should have been fixed in 10.10.3, so you might like to upgrade), in particular the bug that causes WiFi to disconnect when the computer is idle:

http://osxdaily.com/2014/11/19/os-x-10-10-1-wi-fi-connection-issue-troubleshooting

 

Kind regards