Cisco VPN Question 1

[robfr]

Hello,
I currently have several Cisco 1800 series routers I utilze on my network for VPN. I've noticed however these routers will stop polling on my network monitor, however when I dial into them nothing is down and after dialing into them they start polling again on my network monitor. Is there a way to prevent this from occuring? Is there some sort of a time-out in the config that is casuing this to happen?

Rob Friedman
Fidelity IFS

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- General George Patton Jr

 

[brianinms]

Yes, there is a timeout for both ike and ipsec and when they timeout the tunnel is dropped.

 

[robfr]

Is there a way to configure the tunnel so it does not time out?

Rob Friedman
Fidelity IFS

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- General George Patton Jr

 

[brianinms]

You could set its lifetime to 86400 which is 24hours.

 

[robfr]

Thank for the info!!

Rob Friedman
Fidelity IFS

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- General George Patton Jr