[Nagiosplug-help] IPsec/racoon monitoring plugin

[Frank Fiene]

Am Montag 11 August 2008 12:03:06 schrieb Alex Dehaini:
> If it listens on a port, use check_udp to listen on port 4500.
>
> I don't understand your second question. You can create a VPN tunnel using
> two routers or VPN apps like openvpn or freeswan running unix/linux.
> Alternatively, you can use DNAT and send all port 80 requests to your
> nagios server.
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Frank Fiene <ffiene at veka.com> wrote:
> > Am Montag 11 August 2008 10:13:47 schrieb Alex Dehaini:
> > > Does racoon listen on a port?
> >
> > Only if NAT-Traversal is enabled, Port 4500 UDP i think.
> >
> > But what i would do is to create a VPN between your Nagios server and the
> > VPN
> > gateway and try ICMP through the tunnel.


This was not a question.

You can create also a VPN between a PC running Linux and a VPN gateway with 
IPSEC.

If you have a VPN you can do a ping to an IP address behind the VPN gateway to 
test if the VPN is up. For example you can use the LAN IP address of the VPN 
gateway.

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