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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: john on July 19, 2002, 07:16:54 AM
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Hi all.
I have freeswan installed and have the dmc-mitel-freeswan rpm installed. I don't think i need help setting the VPN up (my wife's network guy will (hopefully) do that and hopefully knows what he's doing), but I do have a question.
I will be VPNing between Mitel5.1.2 and a netscreen firewall into my wife's company network. Because we're doing this server to server (as opposed to using the netscreen client software to connect--doesn't seem to work in win98...), I need to know if I can easily disconnect and reconnect the VPN. Thing is, they don't want a permanent connection between them and me. Understandable i guess. (For reference, everything behind their firewall is Nt/win2k.)
Short version: can I turn the VPN connection on and off easily?
For all I know there is a "disconnect" button on the server manager page. But I don't have the connection active yet to check. They need an answer before they'll let me connect.
thanks,
john
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The only simple way to turn this on and off would be to ssh to a server console with a Windows utility like putty and execute:
service ipsec stop
Then when you are ready to bring up the service, execute:
service ipsec start
I've never actually done this, but it should work, because I can execute:
service ipsec status
It comes back with:
IPsec running
pluto pid 1022
I hope this helps.....
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Steve Bush wrote:
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> The only simple way to turn this on and off would be to ssh
> to a server console with a Windows utility like putty and
> execute:
> service ipsec stop
>
> Then when you are ready to bring up the service, execute:
> service ipsec start
>
> I've never actually done this, but it should work, because I
> can execute:
> service ipsec status
> It comes back with:
> IPsec running
> pluto pid 1022
>
> I hope this helps.....
yes it does. that'll do.
thanks,
john