Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:24:57 +0300 From: "Wire James" <wire@linuxsolutions.co.ug> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN tunnels Message-ID: <20030207132445.2B053C4968@lists.eahd.or.ug> In-Reply-To: <3E4283B1.3040702@potentialtech.com>
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Thanks Brian for that input. Is there any one who is aware about that port ? Lunghabo -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Wire James <wire@linuxsolutions.co.ug> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:48:01 -0500 Subject: Re: VPN tunnels > [Could you wrap your lines please, you'll get better response] > > Wire James wrote: > > Hello > > > > I installed a VPN connecting 3 sites together using IPSEC and Racoon > on Free BSD. Each site > > has a FBSD gateway with a LAN. The sites are interconnected with > Frame relay links. However > > occasionally these links go down, thereby cutting the connections > and so the tunnels become > > inactive. > > > > The problem am facing is that whenever the links come back up, racoon > does not auto negotiate > > to reactivate the tunnels what could I be doing wron ? I always have > to restart racoon manually. > > > > Whats the way forward for me ? Or is it the normal behaviour of FBSD > ? > > I don't know if the behaviour is normal or not. > > But there's a port somewhere that I used a few years ago to solve a > similar problem. I looked, > but I can't remember the name, and now I can't find it (I'm hoping > someone will read this > message and know what I'm talking about, thus providing the answer). > > Anyway, this port was a simple program that ran as a daemon and > monitored network status, when > it saw an interface go down, or a host disappear (all configurable) it > would run a script of > your choosing. It would then run a different script when the host > became available again. > We used it for a similar situation (wireless LAN would drop frequently) > and it worked > wonderfully. > > Hope you can find it, or someone knows the port I'm talking about. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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