[Openswan Users] help with dhcp

[Jacco de Leeuw]

Alvaro Reguly wrote:

> Hello, I have got it working with Fedora Core 2 with the RPMs from 
> openswan.org and Windows XP, using certificates.
> 
> Now I need some advice to get it working with DHCP that is running 
> behind the gateway.

SSH Sentinel (discontinued) is the only IPsec client that supports
DHCP-over-IPsec directly. Alternatively, you could use L2TP and PPP
to retrieve IP addresses from the DHCP server. You would need a
pppd plugin called ppp-dhcp (http://www.netservers.co.uk/gpl/).

See also:
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html#L2TPoverview

Jacco
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