[K12OSN] easy VPN?

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon Apr 26 20:46:06 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:27, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> >
> Les,
> 	all I can say is "doh!". this seems to be a prolonged senior
> moment. my sonicwall box is the culprit. of course i have to keep some
> traffic going, for some reason i imagined that the cipe connection would
> generate enough data exchange. well, i send xon every few minutes to my
> handheld terminals, so that the radios stay up - this is the same
> principle. thanks, julius

The cipe tunnel simply encapsulates packets as needed to tunnel them.
The only traffic it generates on its own is a key exchange every ten
minutes or so. If both ends can restart a connection it doesn't matter
how long it sits idle but dynamic NAT has to be kept active somehow.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com






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