[vpn-help] 2.1.7 with Linksys RV082 VPN router

[Matthew Grooms]

On 10/12/2010 9:59 PM, Robert K. Johnson wrote:
> We have been looking for a QuickVPN alternative and recently came across
> the Shrew VPN client.  We are using ver 2.1.7 of the client.  The router
> has the latest firmware release.  We followed the Linksys configuration
> guide on the Shrew support page for configuration.  Are there any known
> issues in getting the VPN connections to work reliably with this
> router?  The connections work well most of the time, but we occasionally
> have a problem where the router and client seem to get out of sync.  For
> example, we may click disconnect from the client, the client thinks it
> has successfully disconnected but the router still shows the client
> connected.  We cannot successfully reconnect until we manually go into
> the router and disconnect the user.  Another example, the default config
> has the SA's renegotiated every hour.  Occasionally the renegotiation
> fails and the VPN connection is lost and cannot be re-established.  This
> has happened while I am at a remote site so I cannot login to the router
> and see what its status is.  Please let me know if these are known
> issues and if there are any work arounds.
>

When you hit the disconnect button, the client will send delete messages 
for all ISAKMP and IPsec SA's. The gateway should honor these messages 
and cleanup its SA table. Have you looked at the log output on the 
gateway to see how it's handling these notifications?

-Matthew