Vpn idle timeout

Troubleshooting AWS VPN. The most common AWS VPN issue is typically caused by the VPN tunnel going down due to idle timeout. (There is no traffic going through the VPN tunnel for about 10 seconds). To bring the connection back, generate traffic to the instance from a campus network (i.e. pinging the instance).

Static ip not working

In case the word next to DHCP Enabled is Yes, you have a Dynamic IP Address and if the word is No you have a Static IP Address. As you can see in the image above, our testing computer does not have a Dynamic IP Address (it has a Static IP Address).