[vpn-help] Automatic re-connection option

[Matthew Grooms]

On 7/29/2010 1:28 AM, Andrei Remenchuk wrote:
> I am evaluating Shrew Soft VPN client and it's working well for me on
> Windows 7 x64,
> where other clients have troubles. Thanks for that.
>
> The problem is that my VPN connection breaks periodically - sometimes
> every couple of hours and sometimes as often as every few minutes. This
> is just how
> my gateway is - it is not VPN client's fault. I just re-connect and keep
> working.
>
> With other clients, I am able to set up automatic re-connection.
>
> Why doesn't Shrew Soft VPN client have an option to automatically
> re-connect
> disconnected sessions ? I understand that I can do it manually, but that is
> quite disruptive. If there's no way to achieve auto-reconnection in the
> current
> version, then consider it a feature request.
>
> I tried 2.1.6-beta10 and 2.2.0-alpha-9.
> The error I see in the log is "session terminated by gateway".
>

Is it a DPD timeout? Have you tried disabling this feature? Some 
gateways don't handle it very well.

-Matthew