Testing a VPN gateway

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Testing a VPN gateway apsolar 05-18-2006
Posted by on May 18, 2006, 8:01 pm
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Hello Gurus,

I am a networking newbie working on a task to upgrade an exisiting VPN
gatreway.
I have finished configuring the new VPN gateway and now I need to test
it.

I am assuming that there would be a clash if call my new VPN with the
same peer name as the current one. Currently they have different peer
names and different IP addresses, everything else is similar.

In this scenario, what is good approach for testing.

Thank you
Ankit Parikh


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Posted by moncho on May 19, 2006, 2:57 pm
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> Hello Gurus,
>
> I am a networking newbie working on a task to upgrade an exisiting VPN
> gatreway.
> I have finished configuring the new VPN gateway and now I need to test
> it.
>
> I am assuming that there would be a clash if call my new VPN with the
> same peer name as the current one. Currently they have different peer
> names and different IP addresses, everything else is similar.
>
> In this scenario, what is good approach for testing.
>

I take you have a laptop or something with a software VPN client?

If so and your laptop is connected to your local network, disable the NIC,
and
use a dial-up Internet account if you have one.

This is the easiest way I know.

moncho



Posted by on May 25, 2006, 11:45 pm
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hello moncho,

could you help me with this query.
Here's the scenario:
I have a VPN gateway at a remote site which I would call as C.
There are two VPN gatewy's A and B at my current site.
B is the main gateway and A is a backup in case B fails.
I have setup Site-to-Site Tunnels on all these gatewyas with
appropriate security associations.
I am using the IPSEc security profile.
C has tunnels to both A and B.B tunnel has metric 0 and A has metric on

1.
B has a tunnel to C and knows that its failover option is A.
I have tested the tunnels manually and they seem to work fine.
My question to you guys, Currenlty I setup a static route on the core
at the current site to route all traffic to C through VPN gateway B. In

case of B failing, I will have to manually change this route to go
through VPN A.
Is there a way by which I could automate this routing change?
I am using Shiva 3115 VPN gateways and they have an option to configure

OSPF.
Do I need to setup dynamic routing on the VPN gateways or on the main
core?And how?

Thanks
Ankit
moncho wrote:
> > Hello Gurus,
> >
> > I am a networking newbie working on a task to upgrade an exisiting VPN
> > gatreway.
> > I have finished configuring the new VPN gateway and now I need to test
> > it.
> >
> > I am assuming that there would be a clash if call my new VPN with the
> > same peer name as the current one. Currently they have different peer
> > names and different IP addresses, everything else is similar.
> >
> > In this scenario, what is good approach for testing.
> >
>
> I take you have a laptop or something with a software VPN client?
>
> If so and your laptop is connected to your local network, disable the NIC,
> and
> use a dial-up Internet account if you have one.
>
> This is the easiest way I know.
>
> moncho


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