[Openswan Users] Openswan to Openswan VPN tunnel

Aaron Smith asmith at nexcerpt.com
Fri Apr 29 11:31:48 CEST 2005


YEah, sorry, that was a typo.  I meant to type --up.  In fact, I often
switch those on the command line too....:)

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:11, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Aaron Smith wrote:
> 
> > 	In other news, I have been able to set up a working ipsec tunnel
> > between two openswan servers.  However, one minor annoyance is that when
> > the tunnel is first brought up from the remote "client" (using --add),
> > the connection is established without error, but pings from clients on
> > one subnet to clients on the other subnet (NOT gateway to gateway) time
> > out.  BUT, if I try pinging once in one direction and then again in the
> > OTHER direction, the tunnel suddenly starts working!  This is kind of
> 
> Use auto=start to start the tunnel when openswan starts. --add (which is
> the same as auto=add), just loads the connection. It doesn't start it.
> Use --up or auto=start.
> 
> Paul
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