[Openswan Users] Best way to keep track of tunnel status?

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Francesco Peeters wrote:

>
> I was wondering what would be the best (i.e. least resource-intensive) way
> to keep track of the status of (an) IPsec tunnel(s)
>
> I know I can do 'ipsec auto --status' (which gives the easiest access to
> the state info) or 'ipsec barf' or even tail auth.log, but I was wondering
> if there's a better way to do this...

Currently, ipsec auto --status is the best way o go.

Paul
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