[05:45] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[06:08] <zmoylan-pi> o/
[06:13] <brobostigon> o/
[10:10] <Gargoyle> Wondering if anyone can help out with an issue I have with a VPN. It's a cisco anyconnect VPN and it's all setup in NetworkManager and "works fine" with one small gotcha - I have to immediately ping a host inside the VPN and leave that ping running. If I don't start the ping withing 2-3 seconds or I stop the ping for more than 2-3 seconds then no VPN traffic will flow. It doesn't disconnect, etc. The traffic just goes down some black
[10:10] <Gargoyle> hole!
[10:11] <Gargoyle> I'm all out of inspiration as to what to search for to find possible answers!
[10:45] <Knightwise> mornineveryone :)
[11:10] <Gargoyle> o/
[11:20] <daftykins> Gargoyle: most VPN configurations have a keep-alive parameter to do that for you
[11:33] <Gargoyle> daftykins: Yeah. I can't find anything like that in the config options in the gui or the related file in /etc/NetworkManager
[11:39] <daftykins> https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/vpn/vpn-via-cisco-anyconnect-fails-after-2-minutes-in-ubuntu-12-04/td-p/2082327
[11:39] <daftykins> 'dead peer detection' or DPD packets seems relevant
[12:07] <Gargoyle> Hmmm. DPD triggers after about 30 seconds, then I get a fresh: "Established DTLS connection (using GnuTLS). Ciphersuite (DTLS0.9)-(RSA)-(AES-256-CBC)-(SHA1)." For 2 or 3 seconds after that, I can launch a new ping and it will stay open. The second I stop pinging it's dead again.
[12:08] <daftykins> did you have a connection profile to supply to make that work, or just credentials to enter once the openconnect 'addon' for networkmanager was installed? because the above link has a parameter for keepalive that might be missing
[12:09] <Gargoyle> Just enetered creds once IIRC.
[12:09] <daftykins> hmm might be some files related to the package then, where a systemwide setting lives
[12:30] <czajkowski> daftykins: hmm not sure what the ~ config directory rename?
[12:30] <czajkowski> means again?
[12:36] <daftykins> skype will store some configuration in your home directory, ~ being /home/username - so finding that folder and renaming it (whilst Skype is closed), so the program can't find it, is a good test
[12:39] <czajkowski> ah
[12:39] <czajkowski> daftykins: how do you know these unusal tricks :)
[12:42] <daftykins> ah they're all highly conventional, there has to be some per-user config for programs, on Windows it's C:\Users\<username>\AppData\ or %appdata%\, same deal as anything hidden under ~ on Linux
[12:42] <daftykins> some hide it in the 'hidden' dot folder of .config - others elsewhere, since there's no consistency in open source land ;D
[12:46] <czajkowski> cause that would be logical right
[12:46] <czajkowski> would love to know why it went hideys in the first place when it just worked
[12:47] <daftykins> Microsoft seem to be on a mission to ruin Skype so everyone leaves, lately xD
[12:47] <daftykins> i just got updated to v8, the single window design and no ability to turn off emoticons is evil :(
[12:49] <zmoylan-pi> it _is_ an ms product... :-)
[22:50] <daftykins> thewaspsknees: i think your PIA node is bad