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+CONNECTION PROFILES
+===================
+
+Client configuration files may contain multiple remote servers which
+it will attempt to connect against. But there are some configuration
+options which are related to specific ``--remote`` options. For these
+use cases, connection profiles are the solution.
+
+By enacpulating the ``--remote`` option and related options within
+``<connection>`` and ``</connection>``, these options are handled as a
+group.
+
+An OpenVPN client will try each connection profile sequentially until it
+achieves a successful connection.
+
+``--remote-random`` can be used to initially "scramble" the connection
+list.
+
+Here is an example of connection profile usage:
+::
+
+ client
+ dev tun
+
+ <connection>
+ remote 198.19.34.56 1194 udp
+ </connection>
+
+ <connection>
+ remote 198.19.34.56 443 tcp
+ </connection>
+
+ <connection>
+ remote 198.19.34.56 443 tcp
+ http-proxy 192.168.0.8 8080
+ </connection>
+
+ <connection>
+ remote 198.19.36.99 443 tcp
+ http-proxy 192.168.0.8 8080
+ </connection>
+
+ persist-key
+ persist-tun
+ pkcs12 client.p12
+ remote-cert-tls server
+ verb 3
+
+First we try to connect to a server at 198.19.34.56:1194 using UDP. If
+that fails, we then try to connect to 198.19.34.56:443 using TCP. If
+that also fails, then try connecting through an HTTP proxy at
+192.168.0.8:8080 to 198.19.34.56:443 using TCP. Finally, try to connect
+through the same proxy to a server at 198.19.36.99:443 using TCP.
+
+The following OpenVPN options may be used inside of a ``<connection>``
+block:
+
+``bind``, ``connect-retry``, ``connect-retry-max``, ``connect-timeout``,
+``explicit-exit-notify``, ``float``, ``fragment``, ``http-proxy``,
+``http-proxy-option``, ``key-direction``, ``link-mtu``, ``local``,
+``lport``, ``mssfix``, ``mtu-disc``, ``nobind``, ``port``, ``proto``,
+``remote``, ``rport``, ``socks-proxy``, ``tls-auth``, ``tls-crypt``,
+``tun-mtu and``, ``tun-mtu-extra``.
+
+A defaulting mechanism exists for specifying options to apply to all
+``<connection>`` profiles. If any of the above options (with the
+exception of ``remote`` ) appear outside of a ``<connection>`` block,
+but in a configuration file which has one or more ``<connection>``
+blocks, the option setting will be used as a default for
+``<connection>`` blocks which follow it in the configuration file.
+
+For example, suppose the ``nobind`` option were placed in the sample
+configuration file above, near the top of the file, before the first
+``<connection>`` block. The effect would be as if ``nobind`` were
+declared in all ``<connection>`` blocks below it.