On 7/7/2010 8:01 AM, Aaron Sarazan wrote: > 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? >
Hi Aaron, This sounds like a firewall state expired which is odd considering the NAT-T keep-alive packets. If you start a ping -t to a host behind the gateway and leave it running, does the connection still appear stable after 30 mins or so? -Matthew _______________________________________________ vpn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help
