[Openswan Users] Multiple connection problems

Norbert Wegener nw at sbs.de
Fri Jun 24 09:44:44 CEST 2005


Jacco de Leeuw wrote:

> Norbert Wegener wrote:
>
>>> L2TP/IPsec uses Transport Mode and multiple clients in Transport Mode
>>> behind the same NAT are the problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this a limitation of the *swan implementation or related to 
>> windows restrictions?
>
>
> I understand that it is a limitation of both *swan and the Linux kernel:
> http://www.kame.net/racoon/racoon-ml/msg00824.html
>
> There is a fix but it involves switching to a hacked racoon and UML:
> http://www.stinghorn.com/opensource/

Maybe this is the reason for a crash of pluto I faced 
recently(http://bugs.xelerance.com/view.php?id=341):
Many users behind the same Nat device tried to  setup l2tp/ipsec 
connections in transport mode:-(

Norbert

>
> Jacco




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