[Openswan Users] Problem of routing under openswan

Dominique Blas ml at blas.net
Mon Jun 28 14:53:56 CEST 2004


Le lundi 28 Juin 2004 13:16, Paul Wouters a écrit :
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Dominique Blas wrote:
> 
> > I have the same problem with racoon so I've supposed it's a kernel related problem but it only appears
> > when using native IPSEC !
>  
> > A tunnel is established through eth1 with subnet 10.2.0.0/16. Since on the opposite side of this tunnel there is another tunnel towards 10.3.0.0/16
> > I had an idea, a few years ago, to say that the first tunnel is established with subnet 10.0.0.0/8 (an no more with 10.2.0.0/16).
> > Why ? In order to see (to ping and reach the SNMP agent) every other machine from the headquarters.
> 
Thank you Paul for your rapid answer.

> This is a known limitation of the current 2.6 native ipsec stack.
Great limitation ! Not able to route when tunnel are established ;-)

> Use KLIPS 
> instead. KLIPS for openswan is planned for version 2.3. You can try Nate's
> experimental patches posted to openswan-dev in the last few days to hack
> KLIPS onto your 2.6 box. Alternatively you can try running freeswan-2.06
> which has klips on 2.6 support.

Ok, now I know in which direction to search for,

Thank again Paul,

db
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> Paul
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