On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:29:11AM -0500, Matthew Closson wrote: > Rather than have isakmpd bring up all tunnels when the daemon starts up, > is there a way to have it bring up the tunnels on demand? For example. > > host_a ----> router_b <------------> router_c <----- host_d > > Is there a way to setup isakmpd so that if host_a tries to send a packet > to host_d, router_b will start IPSEC negotiation with router_c at that > point, instead of as soon as isakmpd starts?
Why would you want to do that? It's not like keeping a tunnel up will use any significant amount of resources, while on-demand tunneling will prove to impose quite a bit of delay. Joachim