There's nothing to go on to offer any worthwhile suggestions. IPsec
logs best place to start.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Bryan D. <[email protected]> wrote:
> FWIW, since my original report, I've noticed some other things:
>
> - since it's not yet "deployed," the v2.2.1 (at both ends) site-to-site IPsec 
> VPN has only 1 laptop and 1 wireless access point on the LAN and virtually 
> nothing else happening on the WAN (it's tied to a cable modem)
>
> - the condition, when I did the original report, was that the laptop was 
> sleeping -- it's a Mac with network wake-up configured and, in that mode, 
> they constantly bring the port up 'n down (hundreds of times per day, each, 
> according to switches at this office)
>
> - I needed to make some changes to that laptop so I had someone bring it over 
> here ... and that significantly changed the VPN "up-ness" behavior:
>
>   + now the VPN is _much_ more likely to be up when I attempt to use it 
> (i.e., with no LAN-to-LAN non-pfSense traffic, assuming there is some 
> generated by the VPN mechanisms, themselves), but ... wait for it ...
>
>   + if I ping the pfSense at the other end and the VPN connection _is_ alive, 
> it'll stay alive as long as I continue the once-a-second pinging (from a 
> non-pfSense system on the LAN) ...
>
>   + however, if I kill the ping, wait 2 or 3 minutes then ping it again, 
> it'll be down ... i.e., the pinging activity seems to stimulate a connection 
> failure once the pinging stops (this seems to be a consistent behavior) ...
>
>   + or maybe what I'm seeing is "the norm" -- i.e., that, as soon as there's 
> a lull in Lan-to-Lan traffic for a short time, the connection drops (even 
> though the config includes DPD and ping'd host at each end)
>
> e.g.:
> [surprise, it's up]
> ______________________________________________________________________
> /Users/admin  (2015-03-23 @ 15:26:05)
> root # ping 172.16.22.1
> PING 172.16.22.1 (172.16.22.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=26.280 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=17.740 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=18.134 ms
> ^C
> --- 172.16.22.1 ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 17.740/20.718/26.280/3.936 ms
>
>
> [now wait about 2.5 minutes ... and it's down]
> ______________________________________________________________________
> /Users/admin  (2015-03-23 @ 15:26:12)
> root # ping 172.16.22.1
> PING 172.16.22.1 (172.16.22.1): 56 data bytes
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
> ... <snip'd>
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 95
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 96
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 97
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=98 ttl=63 time=15.365 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=99 ttl=63 time=14.927 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=100 ttl=63 time=13.905 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=101 ttl=63 time=15.105 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=102 ttl=63 time=17.298 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=103 ttl=63 time=18.674 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=104 ttl=63 time=16.015 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=105 ttl=63 time=15.246 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=106 ttl=63 time=15.009 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=107 ttl=63 time=15.953 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=108 ttl=63 time=17.085 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=109 ttl=63 time=21.631 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=110 ttl=63 time=16.873 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=111 ttl=63 time=16.639 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.22.1: icmp_seq=112 ttl=63 time=15.385 ms
> ^C
> --- 172.16.22.1 ping statistics ---
> 113 packets transmitted, 15 packets received, 86.7% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 13.905/16.341/21.631/1.823 ms
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> /Users/admin  (2015-03-23 @ 15:30:21)
> root #
>
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