You've kind of lost me with what you're trying to achieve, a VPN is just a way of providing trusted connectivity for two devices that are on physically seperate networks, the means of acheiving such are varied but as far as connectivity for servers alive go's the connection is up as long as the VPN is, that is as long as interested traffic being generated. I know RealVNC can run in a secure wrapper but this isn't strictly a VPN.
The answer to your question probably relies on knowing whether the VPN connectivity will operate in tunnel mode or transport mode. Looking at the question you're suggesting tunnel mode as there are multiple devices at either end, if this is the case the tunnels lifetime is dictated by the rules that build the tunnel, namely the SA lifetime and MAYBE a keep alive function. As long as the tunnel is up and routing is correct Salive will be able to see the other end of the tunnel fine and you can use something like VNC to access the remote PC's using their VPN (Not real) address. I know this can all be done, been there, done that, lost some hair to prove it. Dave C -----Original Message----- From: gene Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 26 October 2003 21:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SA-list] RE:Salive and VPN Is anyone using Salive to check systems connected by VPN? A friend has 50 to 75 clinets ( small offices) 4 to 10 computers. He'd like to set up VPN (maybe RealVNC or sonething like this) so ke can access the remote computers. I'm thinking if you set up Salive and check the connections and or (if you can) the connections to the computers you'ed be ahead of the game. If you can check the connections, at least you'ed know when a link goes down. Does this sound right? Any thoughts or ideas?? Can this be done or should it be done another way??? Thanks a proud registered user of a GREAT program!!!!! Regards, Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
