HotBrick VPN 800 / 2 - Manual (Page 8)

How to set up VPN Failover on the LB-2 VPN or VPN 800/2 Property of HotBrick — 2005 8
Click on the ‘Update’ button. The Configuration change page will appear.
Click on the ‘Reload Policy’ button.
Repeat the same procedure for the WAN2_WAN2 tunnel.
Repeat the same procedure on both sides of the VPN tunnel (On both sites).
You should now be ready for the test procedures. If so, go to the next step.
Step 4. Testing the VPN Redundancy.
There are 2 major scenarios for testing VPN Redundancy.
The first scenario occurs when you are on the side of the tunnel that established the initial
connection and your side of the tunnel fails.
Image 7: The WAN1 connection of the local gateway crashes and the traffic then routes through the second VPN.
Start a ping –t command to an ICMP responder IP of the remote LAN. (For Example: your
desktop has the 10.10.1.11 IP and ping the 172.16.10.11 IP. The ping should start responding and
will keep pinging until you stop it manually. For help in using the ping command, access the Microsoft
Windows help system on your desktop.)