RESOLVED - [Openswan Users] Communication problem openswan-winXP

[Nate Carlson]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 desantis at csr.unibo.it wrote:
> Here the solution of my problem:
>
> I was behind a NAT gateway and I tried to connect to it from inside its
> subnet; with linux it works fine but with windows the server was unable
> to recognize which computer was sending ip packages, if it was inside
> the subnet or not.  I think the server didn't understand how to
> comunicate with the windows computer inside its subnet and so it decided
> to block or discar all the arriving pakages...but honestly I'm not so
> sure about this hypothesis.
>
> However I changed gateway and the tunnel went up with all other internet
> activity! :)

Oh, yeah, that makes some sense.

If you're connecting to the external IP of the NAT gateway, it may add a
route to your IP via that interface, and won't be able to reach you any
more.

I wasn't aware that you were making this connection for the gateway
itself.  :)

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