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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">More info.  I can duplicate this issue on every instance I have that I yum update to all the latest packages on centos 7.x.  They all exhibit this same behaviour.  I am running strongswan 5.7.1 and centos:</p>
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<div>[root@ip-100-97-48-212 ~]# cat /etc/*-release</div>
<div>CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) </div>
<div>NAME="CentOS Linux"</div>
<div>VERSION="7 (Core)"</div>
<div>ID="centos"</div>
<div>ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"</div>
<div>VERSION_ID="7"</div>
<div>PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"</div>
<div>ANSI_COLOR="0;31"</div>
<div>CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"</div>
<div>HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"</div>
<div>BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"</div>
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<div>CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7"</div>
<div>CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7"</div>
<div>REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"</div>
<div>REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7"</div>
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<div>CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) </div>
<div>CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) </div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hosts on centos 7.4.x do not exhibit this issue.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 6, 2019 10:39:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.strongswan.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [strongSwan] tunnel up, traffic stops flowing</font>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">I have an issue with a tunnel where the tunnel is up, but after some time incoming traffic stops flowing.  All traffic is initiated from the remote end.  In order to get traffic flowing again I have to initiate some
 traffic to the other side.  Any ideas why this might be happening and how to correct?</p>
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