Upgrading from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 appears to have fixed the problem with the vti interfaces disappearing from the output of ip addr during a network glitch.
However, I still see a failure of the vti interfaces to come up automatically at boot without manually running systemctl start ipsec, and I still find that after a temporary network glitch, the tunnels do not promptly resume passing traffic.
Upgrading from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 appears to have fixed the problem with the vti interfaces disappearing from the output of ip addr during a network glitch.
However, I still see a failure of the vti interfaces to come up automatically at boot without manually running systemctl start ipsec, and I still find that after a temporary network glitch, the tunnels do not promptly resume passing traffic.