[strongSwan] 24/7/365 tunnel?

Michael Schwartzkopff ms at sys4.de
Wed Sep 13 17:38:07 CEST 2017


Am 13.09.2017 um 17:33 schrieb Eric Germann:
> Usually if it "takes down the tunnel" it's due to no traffic. Keep interesting traffic going and it will stay up.
>
> If you have the ability to set "auto = route" it will reestablish the tunnel as needed. We run several hundred tunnels this way in AWS without issue.  
>
> EKG
>
>
>> On Sep 13, 2017, at 09:21, Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m trying to setup a tunnel between two regions in
>> AWS.
>>
>> Works fine, other than the fact that Strongswan seems to take
>> down the tunnel automatically (?) after a few hours.
>>
>> How can I 1) make sure there’s no timeout (?) and 2) that IF
>> the tunnel goes down, for whatever reason, that it will reinitiate
>> the connection automatically?
>>
Dead Peer Detection (DPD) sends packets that keep the tunnel up.


Michael Schwartzkopff

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