OpenConnect hangs after connecting?

[Itamar Gal]

Ok, I'm super embarrassed. For some reason I decided that (by default)
the process was supposed to go to the background after connecting.
Thanks for setting me straight.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Daniel Lenski <dlenski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Itamar Gal <igal at utexas.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I installed the OpenConnect package (which has OpenConnect version
>> v5.02). When I attempt to connect to the VPN the connection appears to
>> be successful, but hangs after completion. I also manually installed
>> OpenConnect version v7.07 and tried using that instead, but I got
>> similar behavior; the output looks slightly different, but it still
>> appears to connect and then hang.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Connected tun0 as 5.6.7.8, using SSL
>> Established DTLS connection (using OpenSSL)
>
> What do you mean by "hang" here? It appears that OpenConnect is
> working perfectly normally.
>
> You did not pass it the -b/--background option, so the openconnect
> process is running in the foreground. The openconnect process needs
> to keep running, because it's entirely responsible for passing traffic
> between the kernel device, tun0, and the VPN gateway; it can run in
> either the foreground or the background.
>
> If you can open another terminal window and connect to hosts inside
> the VPN network, then it's working fine... you are just a single
> command-line option away from preventing it from "hanging" :-P
>
> -Dan



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