[Openswan Users] IPSec, Windows XP/2000 and Dead Peer Detection

[Andrej Trobentar]

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Hello all,

I have the same problem as Duncan Reed in the thread "IPSec Connections
hanging around after Windows L2TP die or exit" - here's the summary :

> There seem to be a number of hist on the list but they seem to offer
> conflicting advice. Bit long this one.
>
> 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+).
>
> Eventually (I guess) the dead peer connection picks it up and you see
> it go into %hold. At some point I think after dpdtimeout is reach its
> cleared.
>
> Until it clears the client with that ip address cannot log back into
>the VPN.
>
> You can see when the client tries to log back in and the connection is
> on hold ....

(http://lists.openswan.org/pipermail/users/2004-December/003081.html)


Is there any solution for this? My co-workers can't use the VPN as they
should so this is a HUGE problem for me.

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Many thanks and have a nice day,

	Andrej.

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