[vpn-help] IKE Servcie crashing or noresponsive after computer sleeps

Paul Theodoropoulos paul at anastrophe.com
Tue Aug 13 12:03:17 CDT 2013


On 8/8/13 8:08 PM, Kevin VPN wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 06:08 PM, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
>> On 31/7/2013 11:51 μμ, Chad Geisler wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering if it has been reported or if anyone is aware that in
>>> many cases the ShrewSoft IKE Daemon service either crashes or is
>>> non-responsive after the windows 7/windows 8 computer goes into
>>> standby when the VPN tunnel is connected.
>>
>> I am sure it has been reported multiple times.
>>
>> Here is a thread I opened a few days ago, for this issue:
>>
>> https://lists.shrew.net/pipermail/vpn-help/2013-July/014526.html
>>
>> I hope sometime they fix it. Standby should not cause IKE Services to 
>> hang.
>>
>
> I standby my machine every night with the VPN connected. When I wake 
> the machine the next day, Shrew auto-reconnects without an issue.
>

I wonder if your success may be due to being configured for 
auto-reconnect. I and I'm sure others don't auto-reconnect, as I don't 
need certain tunnels open all the time. I wonder if the auto-reconnect 
does the necessary stuff for a clean startup after sleep...

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Paul Theodoropoulos
www.anastrophe.com



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