Redundancy of liaison

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SteveM
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Redundancy of liaison

Post by SteveM » Wed Apr 24, 2019 2:55 pm

Hello,

I would like to migrate from VPN to my customers. From openvpn to Softether.

So usually, my clients have dedicated boxes for our feeds. Therefore if a box breaks down, their internet box for example takes over. To do this there exists on openvpn, the line "remote @IP". I would have thought to enter two hostnames on the client softether configurations but apparently this is impossible.
You could call it redundancy of liaison, could you help me?

cedar
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Re: Redundancy of liaison

Post by cedar » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:37 am

You can use DDNS hostname as a destination server.
DDNS host name is resolved to the IP address of the server presenting the correct key.

SteveM
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Re: Redundancy of liaison

Post by SteveM » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:30 am

Hello,

I don’t understand how this could help me solve my problem. In my openvpn conf file, I first contact my vpn1.X.fr en and if it is unavailable I try to contact vpn2.X.fr. Of course, whether it is on a dedicated stream box or whether it is an internet box. It is this redundancy that I am looking for, because I want to switch my customers from one ip address to the other if one of them is unavailable (like the "remote @Ip or hostname" on openvpn). I want to be able to enter 2 different adress ip in a configuration file (my main server and my secondary/backup server).

I don’t know if I’ve been clear, but feel free to expand on your answers or ask me questions. Thank you

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Re: Redundancy of liaison

Post by cedar » Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:15 am

There is no way to fulfill your requirements exactly.
In the event of a failure, you need to specify different connection settings on the client side or switch the server explicitly.

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Re: Redundancy of liaison

Post by SteveM » Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:57 am

I would have liked to see if we could specify several addresses IP/hostname in a vpn client softether configuration.That way if one grave takes over

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