[Openswan Users] traffic through ipsec tunnel

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Jon James wrote:

> A quick question in regards to traffic through ipsec vpn tunnels
> 
> 1) I bring up my tunnel successfully
> 2) I begin a constant ping from one end to the other
> 3) The ping will work consistently for a random amount of time(10-20
> minutes) then all of a sudden it will reply with “Destination host
> unreachable”

Check the logs to see what is going on with the ipsec tunnel.

> If I leave it pinging it will continue with the same reply, but if I stop
> and restart the ping it will work again for a random amount of time.

I cannot explain this.

Paul