[Openswan Users] Dual VPN , Backup / Primary

[Leto]

actually, Linux vti support should be able to do this

sent from a tiny device 

On 2013-06-17, at 12:40, Daniel Cave <dan.cave at me.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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