Re: VPNC plugin on Ubuntu 8.04: disable DPD?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 16:28 +0200, Marc Luethi wrote:
> 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.

I've added a "Disable Dead Peer Detection" option in 0.7 trunk.  I'd
take a patch that added it to 0.6.x if anyone comes up with one (even
just in GConf), otherwise I'll get around to it at some point.

Dan

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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