[Openswan Users] Routing Between VPNs

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, James Crow wrote:

>   I now have a need to connect ~15 remote users who will need to connect to
> the central LAN (where Openswan sits) and the remote LANs. Because these 15
> new users will all be connecting from dynamic IPs I wanted to use something
> other than IPSec VPNs.

Why do you want something other then IPsec VPNs?

>   I installed OpenVPN (SSL VPN product) on the Openswan box and can connect to
> the Openswan box through this VPN.
>
>   Can I use this setup to route traffic coming in on the OpenVPN to the
> Openswan box and then out to the remote LANs?

As long as you have ipsec tunnels covering the source-destination
combinations of IP addresses, it does not matter whether these packets
come from local machines, or openvpn connected ones. that said, I have
never combined the two on a single box.

Paul