[Openswan Users] When do I need the NAT patch?

[SianLun Lau]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:45:05 -0500
Faber Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com> wrote:

> I'm setting up openswan on a RH Linux box to connect to a Linksys
> BEFSX41 router (which is NATting) to reach another RH Linux box inside
> the firewall.  
> 
> If I RTFMed properly, I do NOT need to apply the NAT-Traversal patch,
> right? I should be able to make this work as a simple (?!) Road Warrior
> setup, possibly using PSK right?

as long as the the RH box is NAT'ed, then both needs to have NAT-T patch in order to be able to allow establishment of tunnel. i guess you still need NAT-T for both sides if the Linksys router gonna sit in the middle.

regards,
SianLun