Timer Section
A Timer Section is used to configure the various event timers used by racoon.
Configuration Example
In our configuration example, we define the timer section as shown below:
# # Timer Section # timer { natt_keepalive 15 seconds; } |
Timer section from our example racoon.conf configuration file.
NAT Traversal Keep Alive
A NAT Traversal keep alive value can be specified to enable keep alive packets. The value specifies how long racoon should wait between sending the packets. A keep alive packet is used to prevent a firewall or router from expiring a NAT state entry that is being used by a VPN Client. NAT state entries are typically expired when no matching packets have been seen during a configured time interval. If a NAT state expires, the Client could experience communications failure.
see also:
VPN Client Configuration : Keep Alive Packet Rate
Reference
Specifies various timer values.
The following are valid statements:
counter number; |
The maximum number of retries to send. The default is 5. |
interval number timeunit; |
The interval to resend, in seconds. The default time is 10 seconds. |
persend number; |
The number of packets per send. The default is 1. |
phase1 number timeunit; |
The maximum time it should take to complete phase 1. The default time is 15 seconds. |
phase2 number timeunit; |
the maximum time it should take to complete phase 2. The default time is 10 seconds. |
natt_keepalive number timeunit; |
interval between sending NAT-Traversal keep-alive packets. The default time is 20 seconds. Set to 0 to disable keep-alive packets.. |
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