[Openswan Users] Re-start connection after connection loss

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:

> I want to make my OpenSWAN to restart the connection after a failure occured.
> My I put my connection to auto=start. But this does not seem to help. I also
> tried to use dpdaction=hold. No restart also.
> kyingtries in not set. So it should be default (0).
>
> Is there a timeout (rekey, keylife ?) when openswan tries to reconnect to the
> other gateway?
>
> Does dpdaction=hold prohibit this?

You should use dpdaction=restart

Paul