[Openswan Users] Losing connection to local network

[Anu Markkola]

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Hi,

I hope someone here could help me, because I haven't found information 
about anything similar to my situation. I'm using Openswan 2.3.1 with 
native ipsec.

I have a private (WLAN) network and I'm using openswan to protect 
connections from nodes in my private network to an internet gateway. 
Wireless network is insecure so traffic is encrypted between the node and 
the gateway. Tunnels work fine. The problem is that after the tunnel is 
up, the node loses connection to the local network (I can't ping other 
nodes in the local network, because the return packets are dropped by the 
kernel). Of course I could write passthrough connection for the other 
node, but I would have to write such connections for all other network 
nodes, and since there can be many, I don't want to do this. I would like 
to have the nodes acting normally even when the tunnel is up so that the 
nodes that aren't doing ipsec wouldn't have to know anything about the 
existing tunnels. How can this be done?

Thanks in advance,

Anu