[strongSwan] OS X/iOS clients with XAUTH

[Dirk Hartmann]

--On Monday, February 04, 2013 10:24:46 AM +0100 Martin Willi 
<martin at strongswan.org> wrote:

>> I'm finding that clients drop after 45 minutes because the client
>> wants to rekey, but doesn't expect to have to perform XAUTH
>> authentication again.
>
> Yes, that's a known issue with iOS clients. I didn't know the same
> applies to OS X, though.

sadly it does.
There is a workaround in this thread on the Apple board:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3275811?start=0&tstart=0

I reported this bug to Apple some time ago but as always I got no 
response.

Dirk