[Openswan Users] I can't ping windows computers

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, pitfloner wrote:

> I'm using openswan 2.4.4 to connect our two headquarters with NETKEY by
> net2net tunnel. After defining /etc/ipsec.conf and /etc/ipsec.secrets and
> turn up the service, the tunnel seems to works because I can ping to the
> iface connected to my lan and a linux server located inside my lan.
>
> But I can't ping a Windows PC nor browsing my lan trough this tunnel.

browsing and pinging are two different issues. pinging should work before
you try to browse. Browsing might involve MTU issues and WINS issues.

Run 'ipsec verify'

You probably have no ip forwarding enabled. Or you are NAT'ing IPsec packets.

Paul
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