HotBrick VPN 800 / 2 User Manual
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How to set up VPN Failover on the LB-2 VPN or VPN 800/2
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Image 8: An example of the ping –t command. The several response lines indicate that the opposite IP is responding.
Take care to ping an INTERNAL LAN IP ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE. Do not ping any valid
internet IP or any other IP of your own LAN.
Go to the HotBrick product and pull the WAN1 connection (unplug it). The ping –t command
will fail and after a few seconds will keep pinging.
Image 9: An example of the ping –t command that fails for a brief moment.
This brief moment when you can detect a failed connection (looking at the ping command) is
the time that the product took to establish the second tunnel and redirect the traffic requisitions
through the second tunnel.