Paul,<br><br>Do you know if this would this help with my issue? I'm copying the issue below:<br><br>"I'm having an issue with <span class="nfakPe">Openswan</span> 2.4.9 running on Ubuntu 8.04.<br><br>I
have a site-to-site VPN that periodically goes down and doesn't come
back up. I need to "kick" it with "ipsec auto --down
<connectionname> && ipsec auto --up
<connectionname>" or else it never comes back online.<br>
<br>If anyone has any idea, I'd appreciate it. Also, if there are any
logs that would be helpful for diagnostics, please let me know.
Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the problem easily (I just have to
wait until it gets in the stuck state, at which point I unstuck it).
So, if I need to try some command while the problem is occurring (to
produce logs for instance), it may be a couple of weeks+ before I can
send them."<br><br>My settings are:<br><br>"conn [ConnName]<br> left=[LeftIP]<br> leftsubnet=[LeftSubnet]<br> keyexchange=ike<br> ike=3des-sha1<br> esp=3des-sha1<br> authby=secret<br>
leftid=[LeftIP]<br> ikelifetime=480m<br> keylife=28800s<br> pfs=no<br> right=[RightIP]<br>
rightsubnet=[RightSubnet]<br>
auto=start"<br><br>Thanks!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Paul Wouters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@xelerance.com">paul@xelerance.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:<br>
<br>
> I want to make my OpenSWAN to restart the connection after a failure occured.<br>
> My I put my connection to auto=start. But this does not seem to help. I also<br>
> tried to use dpdaction=hold. No restart also.<br>
> kyingtries in not set. So it should be default (0).<br>
><br>
> Is there a timeout (rekey, keylife ?) when openswan tries to reconnect to the<br>
> other gateway?<br>
><br>
> Does dpdaction=hold prohibit this?<br>
<br>
</div>You should use dpdaction=restart<br>
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