to actively reauthenticate as responder. The IKEv2 reauthentication lifetime
negotiation can instruct the client to perform reauthentication.
- Reauthentication is disabled by default. Enabling it usually may lead
- to small connection interruptions, as strongSwan uses a break-before-make
- policy with IKEv2 to avoid any conflicts with associated tunnel resources.
+ Reauthentication is disabled by default. Enabling it can usually result in
+ short connection interruptions, even when using make-before-break
+ reauthentication, which is now the default. However, they are significantly
+ shorter than when using the legacy break-before-make approach.
connections.<conn>.rekey_time = 4h
Time to schedule IKE rekeying.