IPSEC heartbeat in CISCO

[Ryan Russell]

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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