From: Gary W. S. <ga...@pr...> - 2005-07-29 05:30:05
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I started a similar thread but it never came to any resolve via the = list. We changed a little bit of how we did things and that made the = problem go away. But our case was still based on loosing the route = overnight. =20 A little additional investigation show that sometimes at night we would = see route changes via the ISP for the DSL line through the ISP. I'm not = sure if this played a part of not. We didn't have much time to = investigate. What would happen though is that the tunnel would continue = to stay up on both sides BUT the route on one side would always go from = defaulting to pppx (which is the current active VPN connection) to eth1 = which was the lan connection. =20 As per a suggestion via James we wrote a script to log each call to the = route command (as well as many others including ip) but these never = fired when the route was lost. =20 We also setup a cron job to run every 15 minutes that would check to see = if the route for the remote network had the eth1 in the line and if it = did it would then issue the delete for that route (rinse and repeat = until the problem was gone) and then re-add the route via the current = active tunnel. =20 I'm assuming that this is the topic. =20 Other suggestions including setting up ping in a crontab but this didn't = help. In fact, we have a crontab that pings every 5 minutes anyways to = see if the route needs to be re-established. =20 So, there was no real solution. What we did was start the VPN = connection from the otherside of the pipe and run the same jobs there. = Can't say there was much improvement but since the crontab does most of = the fixes for us it becomes a kludgy workaround. =20 Gary Smith ________________________________ From: ppt...@li... on behalf of James = Cameron Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 9:48 PM To: ppt...@li... Subject: Re: [pptp-devel] re: Connection drops during the nite On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:43:28AM +0200, Peter Sheldon wrote: > I am wondering if the subject/problem of the line dropping during the > night has been resolved. I can't seem to find the resolution message. I don't recall. Contact the original poster. This is why I prefer people to write back to the mailing list to let us know when they resolve something ... and why I don't like people contacting me directly unless I ask them to ... http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/why.phtml is my current rant on this. As for that problem, I've not encountered it myself. Casting my memory back to when someone was experiencing it, the cause was an intervening router or gateway that discarded the knowledge of the connection if it was idle for a long time. Adding keep-alive packets at the PPP level fixed it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO = September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & = QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * = http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ pptpclient-devel mailing list ppt...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pptpclient-devel |