Thanks, now to add a further spin! What if the manager changed and sic was 
established with another manager, would the vpns break instantly or not until a 
new policy was pushed from the new manager? Basically I assume there is no real 
way to keep a vpn intact and hardly any down time if a ne manager was deployed 
changing the vpn from cert to pre shared key, cheers

On Tue, 24 May 2011 01:34 BST David DeSimone wrote:

>Since we just recently had this happen to us on our network, I can
>confirm that this is exactly what happens.
>
>Certificate-based VPN's will fail within 24 hours due to the gateways'
>inability to load the CRL.
>
>Pre-shared secret VPN's will continue to operate, presumably
>indefinitely.
>
>
>Independent IT Consultant <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> It greatly depends on the *type* of VPN.  If using certificates (such
>> as with Edges or other gateways that are centrally managed), then
>> the limiting factor is the CRL expiration on the ICA, which is, by
>> default, 24 hours.  In this case, tunnels that can't validate their
>> certificates will fail after that CRL timeout period.  Remember,
>> it's 24 hours after the last CRL refresh, not necessarily 24 hours
>> after the SMC went down.  With VPNs to external gateways using shared
>> secret, they may work indefinitely, but I wouldn't guarantee it.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Peter Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Curious, Does anyone know how long would vpn's continue to work if a
>> > smartcenter was down and not available for ? And if they do stop why
>> > is this so, or do they simply continue to run but changes not can be
>> > made until the manager was restored? Thanks
>
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