ovpn_peer_keepalive_work(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, this page is ovpn_peer_keepalive_work — run keepalive logic on each known peer. That's the whole vibe, periodt. We're in the Kernel API Manual with ovpn_peer_keepalive_work(9), and it's giving very important background-worker energy. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the function signature is exactly this, no cap:

void ovpn_peer_keepalive_work (struct work_struct *work );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • work — pointer to the work member of the related ovpn object. that's your pointer, bestie 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Each peer has two timers (if configured):

  1. peer timeout — when no data is received for a certain interval, the peer is considered dead and it gets killed. 💀 no cap, dead means dead.
  2. peer keepalive — when no data is sent to a certain peer for a certain interval, a special 'keepalive' packet is explicitly sent. 🎀 keeping the connection cute and alive.

This function iterates across the whole peer collection while checking the timers described above. So yeah, it lowkey does a full sweep of all the peers and gives those timers a vibe check. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file first: ./drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c — then the whole function squad:

source/version: ./drivers/net/ovpn · date: October 2026 — mwah, bye bestie 💅💖

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