James, You could put the stunnel into a while loop that makes it. perhaps you could send yourself an email each time it closed ?
stunnel is probably the easiest to setup. I had written a secure version of mod_ajp for apache 1.3 (ie years ago) which did the whole ssl encryption of the traffic with 2 way authentication it wasn't added to the tomcat source as well no one wanted it :( D On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 17:54 -0500, Christopher Schultz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > James, > > James Ellis wrote: > | I have done some goog'ling on IPSec and VPN and I have found three > | possibilities: > | > | 1) OpenSSH and Port Forwarding > | > | 2) OpenVPN > | > | 3) Stunnel (thanks little voice) > | > | What concerns me about all three options is error handling. If my > | OpenSSH or OpenVPN or Stunnel connection failed/timed out, the whole > | site would go down. There would have to be a VERY good and almost > | instant reconnection taking place. > | > | I am also concerned about performance. > | > | Any comments? > > If you want encryption, you have to sacrifice performance, so just > forget about that concern right off the bat. Your concerns about > robustness are certainly reasonable. You should be able to find > information about restarting connections for each of these products by > searching their forums, help, etc. Any good VPN should have options for > restarting them when a failure is detected (but nothing is ever foolproof). > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkfQdjIACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCfxwCfTDsfjFquhx2Yibw8hKZyTh28 > m8sAoJ8eHlCR5KI/br4KeMwKMDNEXPRH > =wwmj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]