[Openswan Users] Dual VPN , Backup / Primary

[Luis Nagaki]

i was thinking of making 2 conf files on a client server to connect to 2
diff connections if the 1st "master" was down.


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Leto <letoams at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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