On Jul 7, 2011, at 4:45 AM, Paul Keusemann wrote: > My setup is something like this: > - My local network is a mix of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris > machines running various OS versions. > - My gateway / firewall machine is running FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 with ipfw, > nat and racoon for the firewall and VPN. > > The problem is that rlogin, ssh and telnet connections over the VPN get > dropped after some period of inactivity.
You're probably getting NAT timeouts against the VPN connection if it is left idle. racoon ought to have a config setting called natt_keepalive which sends periodic keepalives-- see whether that's disabled. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
