From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061219 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.9 pango-text Description of problem: vpnc has the ability of sending out NAT keepalive packets at specified intervals. With vpnc, this interval can be specified using the command-line option '--nat-keepalive <Seconds>' or in the configuration file by setting 'NAT-Keepalive packet interval <Seconds>' The default however is not to send out these packets which causes vpnc to loose it's connection when running through certain NAT:s When using vpnc through NetworkManager however, there is no way of activating this feature. Could this be added as a configuration option or is there some default value that is reasonable? Through empiric testing I found that 45 seconds works well for me, but other NAT:s might behave differently.... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.cvs20061204.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. N/A Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
Incidentally this version (0.7.0) supports NAT Keepalive and Rekeying interval. You have to use gconf-editor to add them by hand to /system/networking/vpn_connections/<CONNECTION>/vpn_data Rekeying interval <interval in seconds> NAT-Keepalive packet interval <interval in seconds> This bug should be closed? BUT: See bug #229029 for the latest version...
Indeed. I'll look into making this option available from the GUI. Closing for now.