Re: VPNC plugin on Ubuntu 8.04: disable DPD?

[Marc Luethi <netztier bluewin ch>]

Hi all

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:19 +0200, Marc Luethi wrote:
> Assuming that network-manager-vpnc is "using" vpnc behind the scenes, is
> there a way (a config file, perhaps?) to make the VPNC plugin set/unset
> this parameter? (I am no programmer - just a user...)

I have found a workaround solution which might help at least the Ubuntu
users affected by this issue.

In ubuntu Bug #206673
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vpnc/+bug/206673 ,
Chris has made .deb packages of VPNC available on launchpadlibrarian.net
that have the DPD timeout set to 0 by default. Installation on Ubuntu
was easy, just replacing vpnc from the repositories by this version.

This is a rough approach since it might cause conflicts with some VPN
configurations that need DPD and the user has to enable it explicitely
for these configurations; whereas it was enabled by default before.

Nonetheless it solves my problem for the time being.

regards

Marc