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Hi, On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Charles Duffy wrote: > This is pretty close to what I've done in the past, except that I was using > UCARP over Ethernet and not bothering with the serial-line approach. (I > probably *wouldn't* use UCARP again, and would look more closely at Linux-HA > -- but that's a discussion I'd rather not get into at this time). I am looking into the same question right now (set up a HA Linux router) and I am looking for experiences regarding ucarp<->heartbeat. Could you maybe post me some considerations / caveats off-list ? It would be most appreciated > Anyhow, the point I was making is that even when the server is switched out > instantaneously, the process is not quite invisible to the clients (which need > to establish a new session). As you say, keepalive/ping-restart/etc can be > configured to try to make this as quick as possible. Don't you use persist-key and persist-tun ? In my case these parameters work as expected and conceal the reconnect from the client. Just packets don't pass during the reconnect. But SSH and SMB sessions stay perfectly open. -- Regards, Schlomo ______________________ OpenVPN mailing lists https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |