[Openswan dev] Routes and BGP was: Re: [Openswan Users] Openswan on Fedora 9

[Michael H. Warfield]

Say Paul,

	Need to discuss this one little point a little bit deeper...

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 00:07 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 
> > 	I looked further and it seems I was wrong when I thought everything was
> > working when I specified the certificate subject.  It looks like pluto
> > is completing negotiations but then none of the routes appear on the
> > 2.6.09 side and I can't ping from the 2.4.9 side (where the routes did
> > appear).

> netkey does not require routes on the system, you will not see them.

	This is very true and I understand that, from the gateway's standpoint,
this is handled as a security policy match, not a route.  True that
"netkey" per se doesn't require those routes but there are other players
in the game that might need them.

	2.4.x seems to instantiate routes while 2.6.x does not.  Currently,
where I have 2.4.9 on one side of a tunnel and 2.6.14 on the other, I
see routes instantiated on the 2.4.9 side pointing toward the 2.6.14
side but not the other.  That's a change and it does break some things.

	Specifically, anyone doing dynamic routing ala BGP, OSPF, ISIS, or RIP
is in for a nasty surprise.  Right now, on one of my gateways, when the
VPN is up, the routes are instantiated and BGP advertises those routes
to other nodes on that subnet in iBGP (there's a complicated reason for
using a heavy weight like BGP instead or RIP or OSPF having to do with
my ISP and is not relevant here) and out to my ISP on eBGP.  So, while
netkey doesn't need the routes, the router daemons do.  How do I
maintain the older behavior?  Is this something that's going to have to
be managed in the scripts?

	I'm trying to figure out how I would hook this in before I get burned
by it.

> Paul

	Mike
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