[strongSwan] High latency (satellite) link : what can we improve ?

[Tom Rymes]

I would recommend that you try auto=route. My experience suggests that it significantly improves the re-establishment of tunnels if they drop due to bad links. I think that the documentation also recommends this, but I can't seem to find that right now.

Tom

> On Oct 25, 2017, at 4:41 AM, Hoggins! <hoggins at radiom.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Le 24/10/2017 à 18:52, Tom Rymes a écrit :
>>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Hoggins! <hoggins at radiom.fr> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> We sometimes use a satellite link for one of our site2sites tunnels, and
>>> there are times when the tunnel simply stops working. Maybe we don't
>>> wait enough for it to respawn by itself, but then we just restart the
>>> StrongSwan daemon manually and we're good to go for another couple of hours.
>> Are you using auto=route or auto=start?
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
> Hello Tom,
> 
> Our settings are on auto=start.
> 
>     Hoggins!
>