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If this is still the case, please provide some more information, configs, logs etc.
If this is about the redhat.com vpn, I myself use: salifetime=24h ikelifetime=24h Which keeps my connection up for a day.
I see regular problems too. I think it is related to our end ignoring the IPSEC_LIFETIME received from the cisco, in combination with the Cisco quietly hanging up on us, and not sending us a Delete/Notify. This happens to my red hat VPN connection too, so I can confirm and test. We should initiate a rekey based on the receive ipsec lifetime from the cisco (with some margin). Depending on the Cisco requiring new XAUTH credentials, the rekey should either work or fail, but at least we won't have a connection left that silently eats all the packets.
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