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Cisco VPN problem - always disconnects with PEER NOT RESPONDING error

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vladvlad

IS-IT--Management
Aug 23, 2005
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BG
Hi All,
please help me resolve this situation - we are trying to use Cisco VPN client to access the network of a remote customer. They have set up a VPN access for us, and the VPN client is installed on a development workstation (tried Win2003 Svr/Win2000Svr/WinXP - the same behavior)at our office.
It works just fine, with the only exception that it ALWAYS DISCONNECTS after the Peer Timeout period set in our VPN client connection (unfortunately limited by Cisco application to 120 seconds). Please note, that we don't have any problems using the connection, the aplications at our and remote customer's office communicate perfectly, until the connection drops with this error.
Here is the extract from the VPN client log:
............
601 16:43:58.228 08/04/05 Sev=Info/6 IKE/0x6300003D
Sending DPD request to 217.16.77.102, seq# = 2761328401

602 16:43:58.228 08/04/05 Sev=Info/4 IKE/0x63000013
SENDING >>> ISAKMP OAK INFO *(HASH, NOTIFY:DPD_REQUEST) to 217.16.77.102

603 16:44:03.240 08/04/05 Sev=Info/4 IKE/0x63000013
SENDING >>> ISAKMP OAK INFO *(HASH, DEL) to 217.16.77.102

604 16:44:03.240 08/04/05 Sev=Info/5 IKE/0x63000018
Deleting IPsec SA: (OUTBOUND SPI = 63DAFD3F INBOUND SPI = AE122FE)

605 16:44:03.250 08/04/05 Sev=Info/4 IKE/0x63000048
Discarding IPsec SA negotiation, MsgID=31173398

606 16:44:03.250 08/04/05 Sev=Info/4 IKE/0x63000017
Marking IKE SA for deletion (I_Cookie=7BC29A63F3BA70C2 R_Cookie=9F2FA89F01E71ADB) reason = DEL_REASON_PEER_NOT_RESPONDING

607 16:44:03.260 08/04/05 Sev=Info/4 IKE/0x63000013
SENDING >>> ISAKMP OAK INFO *(HASH, DEL) to 217.16.77.102


...............etc.


It seems that the DPD keep alive back notification for some reason can't be returned... The sysadmin at the other side clams a notification is being returned.
Please, HELP - this appeared to be very annoying problem, it stops our work for this trivial network configurtion (Note - we use the same Cisco Client VPN setup for access to other remote customers - none of them produces such strange behavior).....
 
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