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How can I know if the site-to-site VPN tunnel is working bensonlei 07-10-08
Posted by on July 10, 2008, 11:16 am
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Hi,

I have a network topology as the following:

1. Two Cisco 2800 routers,
2. A private line between these two routers, and they are running
EIGRP
3. Each Router has ASA Firewall and the firewall connecting to the
internet through
a broadband line
5. A site-to-site VPN is built up between these two firewalls
6. How can I know if the site-to-site VPN tunnel is working if no
traffic goes through it, since it is the backup link for the private
line ? Is tunnel self fire to keep the site-to-site up ?


Thanks so much in advance

Posted by PacketU on July 10, 2008, 9:49 pm
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> Hi,
>
> I have a network topology as the following:
>
> 1. Two Cisco 2800 routers,
> 2. A private line between these two routers, and they are running
> EIGRP
> 3. Each Router has ASA Firewall and the firewall connecting to the
> internet through
> a broadband line
> 5. A site-to-site VPN is built up between these two firewalls
> 6. How can I know if the site-to-site VPN tunnel is working if no
> traffic goes through it, since it is the backup link for the private
> line ? Is tunnel self fire to keep the site-to-site up ?
>
>
> Thanks so much in advance

You need to send some traffic through it. If averything is in parallel, you
can simply do some host routes on each end from pc's to test, or change the
gw on a pc on each end to point to the firewall instead of the router.



Posted by Uli Link on July 11, 2008, 5:27 am
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bensonlei@yahoo.com.hk schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I have a network topology as the following:
>
> 1. Two Cisco 2800 routers,
> 2. A private line between these two routers, and they are running
> EIGRP
> 3. Each Router has ASA Firewall and the firewall connecting to the
> internet through
> a broadband line
> 5. A site-to-site VPN is built up between these two firewalls
> 6. How can I know if the site-to-site VPN tunnel is working if no
> traffic goes through it, since it is the backup link for the private
> line ? Is tunnel self fire to keep the site-to-site up ?
>

ip sla
track

and perhaps floating static routes

are the magic commands.

Set a static route through the VPN tunnel with a higher metric than the
EIGRP learned route through the leased line. So if the EIGRP route goes
down, the traffic will automagically routed through the VPN tunnel.

If your tunnel use tunnel interfaces you can also watch the up/down
state of the tunnel interfaces and run EIGRP over the VPN link too.

--
Uli

Posted by vicky on July 16, 2008, 8:11 am
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Hello

Please access my share web file link ---


http://vikrantpandey.diinoweb.com/files/


and please see my query which is in the vlan case1.jpg file.


Thanks in advance


Vikrant



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