[Openswan Users]

[Keith Morse]

David Wilson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>
> My problem is that when I run a (/etc/init.d/ipsec start), which I
> guess does something along the lines of (ipsec auto --up net-to-net),
> my remote SSH session to the server stops. Once this has happened,
> then I cannot get back into the server. My just connection times out,
> I can't even ping the Linux server.
> I'm guessing that as soon as the IPSEC VPN initializes it changes my
> normal IP default route/gateway ?
> Any ideas on what could be causing this ?
This happened to me on my first OpenSwan ipsec setup.  Searching
revealed the following in list archives.

I added the following include in my ipec.conf file.

include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/no_oe.conf

and you should review the above file.  I can't remember if it needed any
uncommenting action.