[Openswan Users] Convert RSA Publick Key from PEM to RFC2537

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, lee hughes wrote:

> Hi, I'm usinga ppp interface for my ipsec traffic, this is on a
> dynamic ip address, my vpn termination point is on a static ip
> address. Everything is working fine, for the left next hop I just do
> %defautroute, which picks up my default gateway to the internet
> perfectly. Every is working great....thanks swan people.
>
> but, if my ip address changes, I have to manually edit my ipsec.conf
> setting, anf my psk keys to reflect my ppp interface's new ip address.
>
> Is there anyway to tell openswan to use 'an ip allocated to a certain
> interface' rather than me tell it what ip address it should be using?
>
> failing that, I can write a script which just searches and replaces
> ipsec.conf and my secrets file....but it sounds a bit klugy to me.!

You can use left=%defaultroute. It will automatically pick up the IP
address of your default gateway reachable interface.

Paul