[Openswan Users] Dead Peer Detection

Jacco de Leeuw jacco2 at dds.nl
Fri Dec 10 18:03:02 CET 2004


>> Windows IPSec/L2TP clients connect fine, they do some work, they lose
>> there connection while NOT being idle at a (seemly) random period of
>> time (Happened from anywhere between 5 mins to 1hr+).
>
> For roadwarrior connections you should always use dpdaction=clear. After
> all, the roadwarrior can come back from another IP as well.
> Only use dpdaction=hold on static tunnels.

Windows built-in IPsec does not support DPD, so would this parameter have
any effect on Windows Road Warriors?

Jacco
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