[Openswan Users] SUSE 9V1 no ipsec interface

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Mon Aug 16 08:31:27 CEST 2004


Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:
>
> You can't run tcpdump on the host to see whether or not the 2.6 ipsec stack
> encryps the packets, since there are encrypted after the point where tcpdump
> can read them. Use a box in the middle or the other endpoint to confirm the
> crypto is still working.

Well the incoming packets will indeed show up in plain-text, but the
outgoing packets should show up as encrypted.

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