[Openswan Users] DPD on OpenS/WAN

[Ken Bantoft]

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FYI, 

DPD is currently only in the 1.0.x version of Openswan.


On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, John P Santos wrote:

> When the FreeS/WAN announced it's imminent demise I switched over all my
> VPNs to OpenS/WAN after I read somewhere (no longer remember exactly where)
> that Dead Peer Detection (DPD) was enabled as a patch in OpenS/WAN aka
> SuperFreeS/WAN.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can go about using this?  Because I'm having some
> serious issues with some of the peers on 3 and 4 way VPN networks going
> down from time to time and not coming back up.  I need a trustworthy way of
> making sure that these connections are alive, and so far the scripts people
> have posted on the mailing list are not working.
> 
> Can someone please help?  :-D  I need to get this working, so I can avoid
> my clients calling me everyday to have me restart the VPN on remote servers.
> 
> There are other VPN implementations out there that address this issue in a
> much better way, where you can actually ping networks from within the
> servers, something which IPSec isn't possible because of it's architecture,
> but overlooked because of the strong security of IPSec's encryption.
> 
> I await and thank ahead of time anyone's reply.
> 
> - John


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