[Openswan Users] Ipsec error : no connection is known

[Nate Carlson]

On Sat, 29 May 2004, Frédéric Gonzatti wrote:
> I'm trying to connect to my ipsec gateway with windows XP. I've followed
> nate carlson (www.natecarlson.com <http://www.natecarlson.com>) advices
> but the error message "no connection is known" appears in my gateway. So
> it's impossible to ping a LAN computer...
>
> Could you please help my to enter the good parameters in my ipsec.conf
> files (windows and Linux). I'm using Freeswan 2.05.
>  
> My configuration is :
>  
> XP freeswan client--Internet---WAN side of the router (public IP 
> 62.161.75.XXX)-LAN side of the router (192.168.3.254)---My Ipsec Gateway 
> (192.168.3.1)----My Ipsec Gateway (172.16.2.1)
>
> I would like to acces to my LAN (172.16.0.0/16). I think I've to use
> rightnexhop parmameter but I don't know how ?
>  
> Thanks a lot for your help.

I've had problems putting the FreeS/WAN gateway behind a NAT router, but 
other people have said it's possible.

Can you show us your configuration files, and the error logs?

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