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services.strongswan-swanctl.swanctl.connections.<name>.reauth_time

Time to schedule IKE reauthentication. IKE reauthentication recreates the IKE/ISAKMP SA from scratch and re-evaluates the credentials. In asymmetric configurations (with EAP or configuration payloads) it might not be possible 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.

StrongSwan default: "0s"