[Openswan Users] Dead Peer Detection

[Duncan Reed]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 17:03, Jacco de Leeuw wrote:
> >> 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?

I kind of came to that conclusion as it seemed to make no difference
what I set the parameters to.

Duncan