Hahaha - in other words, sometimes even the best tools available are mostly
useless. :)

--Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Quark IT - Hilton Travis [mailto:hilton at quarkit dot com dot au] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:21 PM
To: m0n0wall dash dev at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall-dev] VPN Status Suggestion

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> Or just use the SAD tab on the Diagnostics -> IPsec page as an 
> indicator of which connections are up.  SAD isn't a guarantee that 
> things are working appropriately, but it's about as close as you can 
> get without pinging or something like that, which is less reliable 
> overall, IMO.

Yeah, pinging is one of the least reliable ways to do anything much, but
unfortunately its also one of the best ways to check for remote
connectivity.  :)

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