[Openswan Users] UDP keepalives

Michael Smith msmith at cbnco.com
Sun May 30 16:42:04 EDT 2010


> From:  <sertys at estates.bg>
> Would a setup of custom udp pings every 80 seconds keep the udp hole open
> on a NAT gateway. My initial thought is to have empty packets sent to the
> negotiated port from `ipsec auto --status`

I wouldn't count on the NAT gateway keeping the hole open if there's just a 
unidirectional packet with no reply from inside the NAT. Depends on the NAT 
I guess.

> The roadwarriors are nokia VPN clients.

As in, Symbian phones? Could you please post your config? I could use an 
example.

Mike 


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