VPN Connectivity to an offline server.

[Guest]

Greetings All, I am trying to bring standard site to site vpn connection between two sites. Site A and Site B. Site A has a server (SeverOne)and site B WILL have a server (ServerTwo). Now Im trying to bring up the VPN tunnel by pinging at this point a NON-EXISTENT server (ServerTwo) from the ServerOne. SO the question is will this tunnel come up even though the server at site B is still not online? So far my tunnel is not passing phase 1. Thanks in advance

[Guest]

SO the question is will this tunnel come up even though the server at site B is still not online?Absolutely.. tunnel should still come up even though the host at other end does not respond.. you still should see phase 1/2 complete, and note in the output of (show crypto isakmp sa) in your firewall tunnel state as QM_IDLE and see peer tunnel address and your tunnel address..   you will only see encrypts but no decryps in the output of (show crypto ipsec sa) when sending pings to a system that is not online ...  so if your tunnel makes it as far as phase1  something is wrong , either in your ike policy not matching or peer not responding.. 

[Guest]

I know it's been a year (almost) but thanks.. this was helpfull