[Openswan Users] Openswan over USB networking.

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, marcos at dytz.com.br wrote:

> I managed to get Openswan and configure it for using with Familiar 0.8.2 and
> right now I am connecting to the Intranet through a USB Networking with the use
> of my computer as a "proxy".
>
> Two questions, is it possible to connect to a VPN server through USB networking
> or the use of a computer as an intermediate step makes it impossible to do so?

Openswan does not care what the network device is. Just use a proper interfaces= line
and it will get an ipsecX interface associated with it,

> ipsec_setup: Starting Openswan IPSec U2.2.0/K2.00pre1..
> ipsec_setup: WARNING: changing route filtering on usbf (changing
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/usbf/rp_filter from 1 to 0)
>
> Is that expected or I have something wrong in my settings?

Openswan disabled rp_filter. That is good, you could do it yourself but it doesn't
really matter.

Paul