GRE-VPN routing question

[Salvatore Polifemo]

I have a few remote routers connecting to the home office using GRE-VPN and using OSPF for routing.

The routing is working properly except for the traffic being sent by the routers directly ( logging to a remote syslog server ).

I can ping the remote router internal interface from the home office, but not the other way around.

I think I understand the problem being that the traffic being generated by the router does not go through the internal interface and therefore is excluded.

Is there a way around this,  sending log data to the remote server is the only issue.

Thanks in advance.

Sal

[Edison Ortiz]

Any traffic sourced from the router will use the external interface, not the GRE interface.

If you want to ping from the router, you can either source the packet from the GRE interface or the internal interface.

For instance: ping 1.1.1.1 source fast0/0 or ping 1.1.1.1 source tunnel0

For the logging, you can enter the logging source-interface command and modify the source interface from the external to the GRE

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/netmgmt/command/reference/nm_09.html#wp1095099

Regards,

Edison