[Openswan Users] Tunnel stores packets when it goes down????

Paul Wouters paul at xtdnet.nl
Fri Dec 17 21:19:31 CET 2004


On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Matthew Claridge wrote:

> We are seeing a situation where a tunnel goes down for a few minutes and
> then it appears that it resends all the packets (at speed!) that were
> sent to that route during the outage, causing a flood on the network.
> 
> Any ideas what its doing? The documentation says that klips should just
> drop these packets....

KLIPS can store a few packets, but I doubt it is storing two minutes
of full blast packets. Are you sure it's not your application doing this?

Paul
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