Comment 105 for bug 93413

With Hardy (8.04) and KVPNC from the repository I was experiencing a similar problem.

I could get connected with our Cisco VPN, but then after a few seconds the connection would go down and shortly after that would not reconnect until I Quit KVPNC.

I played around with some timing and in Network/General I noticed the Use connection status check and that the interval was initially set to a relatively small value (I think it was 5 or 10). This happened to be the same interval that I was seeing the failure from the ping being sent out

After turning on level 3 logging I noticed that the failure was tied to a "ping" message being sent out. The message was error: Ping to IPAddr within 1 checks every 5s has been failed!

I then kicked the interval up to 20 seconds, and I could now stay connected for 20 seconds! But every 20 seconds it would report failure, drop the connection and reconnect. But in this case it appeared that it did not get into the state where I would have to quit KVPNC and restart it in order to connect again.

For good measure I changed the interval to 40 seconds, and now every 40 seconds it reports the Ping failure, drops the connection and reconnects.

So, next I disabled the connection status check to test and see what would happen.

Now the connection has been up for over 42 Minutes (not seconds) and as far as I can see the connection is still fine and dandy. I can function via ssh and also a fish:// session in Konqueror for browsing and copying files.

Has anyone seen this problem (with the Ping used to do the connection status check failing), and if so did you find a solution to the problem? If not, and you are having regular drops of the connection you might want to try disabling the connection status check and see if that makes a difference.

Of course I would like to have the connection status check working, but disabling the connection status check at least appears to allow me to use KVPNC to access my work network for the moment.

I should also note that I have had this problem with Kubuntu 7.04 before but never had the time to ferret out what might be going on, and I had a build of the Cisco Linux VPN client that I could use on 7.04.