[Openswan Users] Dual VPN , Backup / Primary

[Daniel Cave]

Linux clustering services.

Setup two nodes,  and create a resource/services which calls a custom script. based on your required scenario.

Or, use a perl script that uses SSH  and ssh keys to connect to trusted hosts and bring up/down the tunnel.


On 17 Jun 2013, at 15:12, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:

> Not out of the box as far as I can tell, but you can write a script
> that would detect VPN failures (perhaps ping the remote gateway's
> source IP) and swap config files and restart the VPN service. Another
> option is to generate an SNMP trap upon VPN failure and let the trap
> collector (Nagios would be ideal) execute the swap script. Somewhere
> you might need to build intelligence to handle flaps (Nagios does
> this).
> 
> If this is for EC2 VPC, I could never get it to work - so will be
> interested if you did. :-) Please keep me/this list posted.
> 
> Binand
> 
> On 17 June 2013 19:13, Luis Nagaki <luis.nagaki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Guys, is there a way to setup if the Main VPN Goes down for it to try
>> the 2nd. BUT to never use both? dont want i to go crazy if both lines are
>> up.
>> 
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Regards

Dan.