Re: VPNC Connection dropping

[Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org>]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> There is an issue with recent vpnc releases (in particular, the one in
> Fedora 8) where connections are dropped fairly regularly by the
> dead-peer detector.  See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345281.
>
> The workaround is a parameter in the config file for vpnc to adjust the
> DPD timeout or turn it off, but there is no way to specify the option
> for a connection in NM-vpnc.

Can you file a bug against NM-vpnc ? I have a patch already that relaxes 
the options validation step, so that one may add any required 
non-supported options into gconf.