Trying to establish link using pppd connection overlapped into stunnel 5.44. Server runs on OpenBSD 6.4, client uses the same stunnel and OS versions.

From the client's side I have to reconnect to stunnel-server in case of Internet link is dropped. And expecting that pppd session is kept by stunnel over reconnections possible.

But stunnel-server runs another pppd instance when stunnel-client reconnects. After reconnection in system processes I see two pppd processes (as shows below), and pppd link has no pings after it.

# ps -aux | grep pppd user 45359 0.0 0.0 440 1672 ?? I Tue11PM 0:00.01 lock passive 10.0.1.1:10.0.1.2 local debug noauth (pppd) user 1156 0.0 0.0 321 1210 ?? I Tue12PM 0:00.01 lock passive 10.0.1.1:10.0.1.2 local debug noauth (pppd)

1. The question is how to keep initial session established by stunnel-client and do not run second pppd process by stunnel-server? 2. May I keep session by cache-ID on the client's side only or do I need to do it on both client and server? Can it help not to run another pppd process?

Both server config and client config parts are below:

# cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel-server.conf ... [ppp] ;SERVER accept 1.2.3.4:443 exec = /usr/sbin/pppd execargs = lock passive 10.0.1.1:10.0.1.2 local debug noauth pty = yes CAfile = ca.crt cert = server.crt key = server.key verifyChain = yes TIMEOUTclose = 0 ...

# cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel-client.conf ... [ppp] ;CLIENT client = yes retry = yes connect = 1.2.3.4:443 exec = /usr/sbin/pppd execargs = persist lock 10.0.1.2:10.0.1.1 local debug noauth name ppp-client pty = yes CAfile = ca.crt cert = client.crt key = client.key verifyChain = yes checkHost = hostname ;checkIP = 1.2.3.4 ... Thank you for answer in advance.