I am currently using a tz300.
I am currently running 2 vpn tunnels on the sonicwall. If the sonicwall restarts or for some reason power gets cut and has to be turned back on, the VPN tunnels do not seem to come back up by themselves.
To make it work, I have to click on edit on each VPN tunnel and click on “OK” to re-establish a connection. Is there a way to make this re-establish a connection automatically?
It needs traffic to send to the other side, to build the VPN. I set the NTP service to an IP at corp to update very 5 minutes, which will trigger building the VPN.
Silly basic question but have you got a ping keepalive set on one end of the tunnel? Should do what you need. In the VPN connection settings.
It’s Keepalive - needs to be turned on
Other than that, rebuild the tunnels entirely
After that, ensure firmware is up to date
After that, check the logs
After that, call support
After that, rebuild the Sonicwall
You have lots of steps to try…
So, if I ping from one site to the other site it will start to build the VPN on the sonicwall side?
Yes that is enabled already on both tunnels.
The other side of the tunnel is aws. I do not see anyway to do a keep alive from the other end.
And just at one end of the tunnel?
oof, AWS tech on Sonicwall is relatively new for them. I wouldn’t put it past them to still be having some problems like these with them.
It runs fine normally. Haven’t had any problems with the vpn besides if the device gets restarted. The ssl VPN still works. Just annoying I need to go in there and reestablish the connections.
Firmware is up to date. Have a ticket in with sonicwall already. I will take a look at the logs.