[Openswan Users] VPN on UML

[Simon Matthews]

Michael,

At 05:23 PM 7/2/04 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
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> >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Matthews <simon at paxonet.com> writes:
>     Simon> Are there any special considerations to running
>     Simon> Free/OpenS/WAN on a UML machine? Has anyone solved the
>     Simon> routing issues that seem to derive from a routing table like
>     Simon> this:
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>     Simon> # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway
>     Simon> Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1
>     Simon> 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 1.2.3.101 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
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>     Simon> Where 1.2.3.101 is also the UML machine's IP address.
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>   In other words, you haven't got a proper network between the host and
>the UMLs.
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>   If you don't want to to networking, then don't.
>   If you do, then do it properly. Don't play games.


With respect, please don't comment if you don't understand what is going on.

I have a working UML machine, provided by a commercial virtual host 
provider. I don't have control over the network configuration (well, I can 
change it, but the machine probably won't work if I do), but I do have 
working networking. Heck, I don't even know where the machine is hosted, I 
only access it via the Internet.

Now maybe there is some better way the UML networking could be configured 
-- such that Free/OpenS/WAN would work -- answers to solve that problem 
would be welcome.

Note that in my original email, I changed the first 3 octets of my real IP 
address to 1.2.3.

Simon