Tunneling issues

[Stephen Clark]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 11:21 AM 7/9/2008, zaphod at fsklaw.com wrote:
> 
>> I agree it should work.  But it's not.  With respect to the next two
>> questions, yes and yes.
> 
> Can you post some of the configs you are using for 3 of the sites so we 
> can perhaps spot the problem(s) you are having ? I have a similar setup 
> with 5 sites, all talking to each other via IPSEC tunnels. Its a lot of 
> policies, but they work just fine.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> I'm not a huge fan of OpenVPN, but the bigger issue is that the gif
>> tunnels come up at boot up. As well as routes.  Given the client server
>> nature of OpenVPN it is suitable, because if a server reboots, I'm not
>> certain a client would auto re-connect.
> 
> We have ~ 400 sites running OpenVPN across Canada that all reconnect 
> just fine after reboots / power cycles etc.  We dont let the clients 
> talk to each other, but that would just be a config change to allow that 
> to work.
> 
>         ---Mike
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Hi,

I do this also - having both multiple gre/vpn tunnels to do ospf.

Using freebsd 4.x and 6.1

Steve
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