It looks a bit strange that it takes 40 seconds to respond to the DPD requests and then they all come together?

Is there any kind of QoS / wan accelerators in the path?

Is this Ipsec over TCP? have you tried UDP?

Regards,
John

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Joseph Mays wrote:

We have a client on a connection to a cisco switch at one of our locations, routing out through a 3600 to a cisco firewall at a remote location. The firewall is a CISCO 5505 running 8.25.

When they connect to the remote firewall with a cisco VPN client (Cisco VPN client for windows version 5.0.07.0290) they get intermittent drops in service. If they set up a hard firewall from inside their network that connects to the remote firewall, and then run their connections through that, it works fine. I asked them to try setting the MTU on the cisco client down to 576 from 1300 -- same result. They can also run the client through another wan connection to the remote firewall and it works fine. It seems to be something about connecting to the remote firewall with this client across the WAN connection that runs through us, but no errors are occurring on any of the interfaces in the path, and I can't find that any packets are being dropped or anything.

I received a snippet of Cisco VPN client logs from the customer, but I'm not well-versed in it enough to see if it's providing any useful info. Quite possibly it is and I just am not recognizing the fact.

Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 5.0.07.0290
Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Client Type(s): Windows, WinNT
Running on: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
Config file directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\

2      14:29:34.774  10/25/12  Sev=Info/6            IKE/0x6300003D
Sending DPD request to 199.30.90.62, our seq# = 2332051025

20     14:30:15.216  10/25/12  Sev=Info/5           IKE/0x63000040
Received DPD ACK from 199.30.90.62, seq# received = 2332051025, seq# expected = 
2332051032

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