[Openswan Users] Openswan with Advanced Linux Routing

Brendan Simon BrendanSimon at fastmail.fm
Fri Nov 18 16:06:02 CET 2005


Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Brendan Simon wrote:
>   
>> The commericial IPSec stack only interrogates the main table and does not look
>> at other tables.  Effectively my ip rules are ignored as the IPSec stack is
>> actually doing the routing based on the main linux routing table.  What I
>> really want is for the IPSec stack to NOT do the routing, but pass the packets
>> to the standard linux routing code.
>>     
>
> Openswan with NETKEY should work. Openswan with KLIPS likely will give problems
> since it also uses just the main routing table.
>   
Thanks.  I haven't looked at it since FreeSwan days.  I know/believe 
KLIPS is part of OpenSwan but have not heard of NETKEY.  Is NETKEY part 
of OpenSwan too?

> What is this "commercial stack". It sounds suspiciously like a KLIPS derivative.
>   
Unfortunately I don't want to say as they are a related company to the 
one I work for and I might get my hands slapped.  Needless to say if I 
decide to go with OpenSwan and it works then that would be a slap in the 
face for that company but that's not really my problem :)

I don't believe it is a KLIPS derivative but I don't really know to be 
truthful.

Thanks,
Brendan.



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