[Openswan Users] What would cause ipsec auto --up {tunnelname} to hang?

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Greg Scott wrote:

> Yes - but in this case the IPSEC tunnel is a backup route.  So I need to
> bring the tunnel up and down dynamically.  The idea is, when the primary
> point to point path goes down, bring up the tunnel.  And then take down
> the tunnel when the primary PtP path comes back alive.

So use /etc/ppp/ipdown.d/ scripts. Those are only invoked when a link
change happens.

Paul
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