[Vpn-help] Fwd: New 2.2.0 alpha available ...

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Wed Oct 29 13:11:51 CDT 2008


Rodrigo Ferroni wrote:
> Matthew,
> 
> I just try again the first host and works fine.
> 

Excellent! Thanks for testing.

> 
> Is like you said the problem is related to DPD, in the racoon.conf i 
> have this options:
> dpd_delay 20;
> dpd_maxfail 50;
> I suppose the second is the problem, the default value according the man 
> page is 5,
> "this set the maximum number of proof of liveness to request before 
> considering the peer is dead"
> for the moment i can't change this option to confirm this, because i 
> need to restart racoon.
> 

Right, those settings mean the connection won't fail unless the peer 
doesn't respond for over 15 minutes. A bit long in my opinion :) I would 
try the defaults and only bump it up slowly if you experience problems.

Thanks,

-Matthew



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