Re: [Ipsec-tools-devel] Hanging Connection

[Rainer W. <rwe...@mo...>]

Tobias Dinse <tob...@st...> writes:
> we have a strange Problem since we are using Racoon for our VPN 
> Connections. After a while (maybe 2-3 Weeks), we gain a lot of laggs and 
> sporadic high pings on your Debian Servers.
>
> After Restarting Racoon all works fine for about 1-2 days.

Nothing that's part of the regular operations of the daemon can cause
this directly because it doesn't handle any real traffic, it just
negotiates security associations and configures the kernel to handle
this traffic in the desired way. Even the daemon going bezerk and
using all available CPU time shouldn't cause this to happen because
the kernel-level stuff is all interrupt driven. I happen to have some
experience with racoon on Debian and so far his hasn't happened for us
although we decidedly handle more han three customers :-).