WhonixVM - vpnVM: How to keep VPN established

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Hi,

I have a setup where I have a separated VM with a connection to a TCP VPN. Setup is whonixVM->vpnVM->User

I am seeing two issues with this setup. One is VPN disconnects very often. Second is while ping is stable around 200ms sometimes I start getting 2kms or even 4kms and then get back suddenly to 200ms.

My question is, if is there any configuration I can put on whonix gateway to keep VPN connections longer as the gateway is ONLY used to connect to the VPN servers. I read in the manual there is a section that talks about this but was not able to see any specific config for this case.

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These are questions for VPN experts which aren’t very specific to Whonix.
(Whonix doesn’t have a “randomly stop some VPN connection” anti-feature.)

Recommended to research as per https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Free_Support_Principle

How to keep a VPN functional / automatically re-connect over a slow / unstable connection?

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OK thanks, good to know! I though maybe the way it torify using socks in whonix was the cause for this issue and there were other known approaches, knowhing this I will take some research. THanks