[Openswan Users] Confirm NetKey Traffic

Toby Chamberlain tjchamberlain at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 3 01:42:56 CET 2005


Thanks Jacco,

I managed to find someone of IRC who said to use "tcpdump -n -s 1500 esp" 
which seemed to do the trick.

Thanks
Toby

> Toby Chamberlain wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to prove that a packet is being sent via the VPN when 
>> using netkey? With KLIPS a simple tcpdump would show whether it was IPSec 
>> traffic, but with netkey I just get "Host1 --> Host2" - VPN and standard 
>> traffic look the same.
>
> Use a separate system between Host1 and Host2 to listen in on the traffic:
>
> Host1 --> Host2
>        ^
>        |
>        |
>       Host3
>
> This is the most reliable method, even with KLIPS.
>
> Jacco
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