Unroutable packer to specific IP forces process to run

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:35 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:33 PM Don Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 8/6/20 2:30 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>> > I have VPN that has stability problems (the fault of the ISP and they
>> admit
>> > it) I have set up one my FreeBSD machine as a router for that specific
>> VPN:
>> > # on non-gateway machines in /etc/rc.conf
>> > static_routes="internalnet2"
>> > route_internalnet2="-net 10.31.10.0/24 192.168.11.60"
>> >
>> > Is there any way to force the gateway machine to run a preset command if
>> > 10.31.10.0/24 is unreachable?  (i.e. reset the connection)
>> What about a simple scripted cron-job ping, Aryeh? Sometimes the
>> simplest solutions are the best.
>>
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> The amount time the connection stays up is unpredictable and due to the
> use case it needs to be repaired immediately if down (not even a 5 min
> delay for cron to do its normal wake up and look for a job is acceptable)
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Should add the use case is near real time DB replication during a alpha
test of a life critical DB and thus any down time of the production DB is
unacceptable (and before you say use a non-production instance me and you
have already discussed this use case so you know it is not an option)

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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org