Re: [Users] tunnel to Contivity dying

From: Ken Bantoft (ken_at_freeswan.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 13:57:28 CET


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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Sam Sgro wrote:

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> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Avinash Shenoy wrote:
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> > I'm using FreeS/Wan 1.97 on RH 7.3 (rpms from http://rpms.steamballoon.com)
> > and have setup a tunnel to a Nortel Contivity box. The tunnel comes up
> > and works fine for a duration of about the period specified by the "keylife"
> > parameter in /etc/ipsec.conf(I've set keylife=8h). After this period the
> > tunnel seems to die out.
>
> BTW, keylife refers to the IPSec SA renegotiation, which does appear to
> succeed from the log excerpt.
>
> > The ipsec0 interface is still visible, but no packets are seen passing through
> > the tunnel.
>
> The ipsec interface will always be available, regardless of the state of the
> tunnel.
>
> Aside from the frantic Delete SA payloads, the logs look fine.

Suggestion - maybe try the Delete/Notify SA patch from
http://open-source.arkoon.net and see what happens, since FreeS/WAN would
then delete the SA's entirely, instead of leaving them hanging around
until expiry time.

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