IPSEC heartbeat in CISCO
Ryan Russell
ryan at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Wed May 10 13:43:45 EDT 2000
Just use a link-state routing protocol over the VPN. That's the sort of
reason the routing protocols exist.
Ryan
> I'm running IPSec on CISCO routers to build VPN betwween some sites.Those
> sites also have a low and expensive ;-) bandwith private WAN. What I want is
> to detect a failure of the VPN (either Internet access is down either the
> peer is down) so that I can re-route traffic on my private WAN.
> The hearbeat mechanism (as defined in IPSEC drafts) seems a perfect
> candidate for this function but is it supported by CISCO( I can't find any
> information in docs)?
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