[ale] PPP/SSH VPN dies randomly

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:

> I have never kept a VPN up for days on end. There has always been some
> network glitch outside my control that has required a reconnect. 

I've been told that mine has an 8 hour timeout, although I'm on 14h 28m 
right now.  I never leave mine up even overnight, no reason to.

I agree though, regarding the uptime expectations.  All you have to have 
is a good burp in your internet connection and your tunnel's gone.

> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 21:43, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
>>And this is acceptable?  Forgive me for being naive, but that would be like
>>using an Operating System that crashed almost daily and wrote it off as, "I
>>guess that's just how it has to be".  By definition there has to be a
>>"reason" for it and therefore, a solution.
>>
>>Have you confronted your VPN vendor about it (please say it wasn't Cisco)?
>>If so, what was their response?
>>
>>I'm currently adding a VPN watchdog to my crontab, but even 1 minute of
>>downtime per month is a major malfunction.  Someone has to have some clues
>>about this.  I'm not using IPsec, I'm using SSH over PPP.  I understand that
>>encryption can be finicky, but I have a hard time blaming SSH.  I'm expected
>>to produce 99.99999% availability and I can't accept anything less.  Call me
>>a spoiled Linux user for assuming availability, if you must...
>>
>>:)
>>
>>Anyone have any leads or even starting points for debugging this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>CB
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
>>>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 7:53 PM
>>>To: Christopher Bergeron
>>>Cc: Ale
>>>Subject: Re: [ale] PPP/SSH VPN dies randomly
>>>
>>>
>>>No real help, except to say that this happens to my (commercial) vpn
>>>connectivity on occasion.  It presents an error message something to the
>>>effect of: "heartbeat missed, assuming tunnel is down."  This is an
>>>ipsec vpn.
>>>
>>>Christopher Bergeron wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone have any idea why my VPN connection dies
>>>>
>>>periodically?  It seems
>>>
>>>>to be okay for a few days and then one of the procees goes
>>>>
>>>defunct and the
>>>
>>>>connection goes down.  I'm tunneling ssh over ppp over a T1
>>>>
>>>connection to
>>>
>>>>the 'net on both sides.
>>>>
>>>>Any clues are greatly appreciated...
>>>>-CB
>>>>
>>>>
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