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🐛 (Relatively) high idle traffic consumption

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Description

**Describe the bug**
Cloudflared tunnel consumes ~20Mb in and ~20Mb out traffic per day, even though noone is using it.
All others consumers of traffic are disabled and monitored by "nethogs".
This is a very remote system with metered traffic, so 20Mb/day is noticeable in the long term.

**To Reproduce**
Start cloudflared tunnel in default configuration.
Do not send any traffic through the tunnel.
Monitor how much in/out traffic is consumed on the NIC

**Expected behavior**
Very little traffic is consumed (<1Mb).

**Environment and versions**
- OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
- Architecture: AMD64
- Version: 2025.2.0 (built 2025-02-05-1041 UTC)

**Additional context**
In metrics I see lots of QUIC pings. It is very hard to fill 20Mb/day with pings, should be every second or so. If it's configurable - please suggest how to configure it to be less aggressive on pings (if pings are really to blame here).

process_start_time_seconds suggest that service uptime is ~4 days.

quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="0",frame_type="Ack"} 148690
quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="0",frame_type="Ping"} 148785
quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="1",frame_type="Ack"} 140806
quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="1",frame_type="Ping"} 140343
quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="2",frame_type="Ack"} 148814
quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="2",frame_type="Ping"} 148945
quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="3",frame_type="Ack"} 138480
quic_client_received_frames{conn_index="3",frame_type="Ping"} 137864
quic_client_sent_frames{conn_index="0",frame_type="Ping"} 149078
quic_client_sent_frames{conn_index="1",frame_type="Ping"} 140266
quic_client_sent_frames{conn_index="2",frame_type="Ping"} 149031
quic_client_sent_frames{conn_index="3",frame_type="Ping"} 137927

quic_client_sent_bytes{conn_index="0"} 2.5821164e+07
quic_client_sent_bytes{conn_index="1"} 2.0089163e+07
quic_client_sent_bytes{conn_index="2"} 2.5591699e+07
quic_client_sent_bytes{conn_index="3"} 1.7125344e+07

quic_client_receive_bytes{conn_index="0"} 1.2861758e+07
quic_client_receive_bytes{conn_index="1"} 8.211398e+06
quic_client_receive_bytes{conn_index="2"} 1.1776562e+07
quic_client_receive_bytes{conn_index="3"} 8.064028e+06

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