When setting the keep alive parameter to 0 the gui does not update to active when starting the vpn connection.
When I generate some traffic (for example ping som host) it switches status to active.
Edit: using latest testing version 0929.
Anyway you try a different keep alive number?
It works fine when using the default 25 s but I want to shut off the keep alive.
Took a while to figure out 0 turns it off, I think an empty value should be accepted as well.
With 0 the gui does not update as it should.