I'm actually on ethernet when this happens. As far as I can tell there are no network-related events correlated to the drop. There also isn't any DHCP going on via the gateway router. It keeps its same IP from home network.
Forgot to post the specs in the first post, for what it's worth. Win7-x64 Shrew 2.1.* Netgear FVS338 PSK+Xauth Mode Config OFF Use Existing Adapter settings DPD+IKE Fragmentation ON (allegedly) NAT-T ON On 7/7/2010 9:11 AM, kevin shrew-vpn wrote: > Are you on wireless? I get "silent death" problems on Windows XP all the > time when the wireless network connection re-associates. Our wireless is > both a and g and Windows seems to like flipping back and forth between them. > It also seems to have a very short dhcp lease time which may contribute. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Sarazan<[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:01:26 > To:<[email protected]> > Subject: [vpn-help] 2.1.5 -> 2.1.6b10 -- Connection silently dies after 5 > minutes > > This is an old problem that plagues my Win7-64 machine with all client > versions, but doesn't seem to even affect my Ubuntu machine (or any > coworkers' machines for that matter). > > > I'll successfully connect to the gateway, ping inside the network, and all is > happy. After about five minutes, the connection will silently fail and pings > will time out. According to the "Network" tab, it is still established, and > the trace utility doesn't show anything but a bunch of keep-alives for phase > 1: > > > 10/07/07 08:53:59 DB : phase1 found > 10/07/07 08:53:59 -> : send NAT-T:KEEP-ALIVE packet > 192.168.2.101:4500<http://192.168.2.101:4500> -> > 98.101.134.218:4500<http://98.101.134.218:4500> > > > Also the "VPN Connection Status" on the Netgear admin page lists it as "IPsec > SA Established". The connection won't return until I do a manual > disconnect/reconnect. > > > On a possibly related note, it's listing Dead Peer Detection as disabled, > even though I've enabled it on both the client and server side. Any thoughts > on that? > _______________________________________________ > vpn-help mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help > _______________________________________________ vpn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help
