OpenSwan IPSEC tunnel between two RHEL hosts keeps dropping

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • OpenSwan IPSEC tunnel between two RHEL hosts drops, and I keep having to restart the ipsec service on both nodes to get the tunnel established again.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6

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