[Openswan Users] ipsec0 device

[Michael Schwartzkopff]

Jax schrieb:
> Vince John wrote:
>   
>> Hello there~~
>>
>> My connection comes up all the way, and works, even, but I never see an
>> ipsec* device appearing anywhere. 
>> For firewalling and routing reasons I do need one. 
>> I have tried both
>>          interfaces="ipsec0=eth0"
>> and
>>         interfaces=%defaultroute
>> but nothing. Not with ifconfig, not in /proc/net/dev. 
>>
>> Any idea what I am overlooking/forgetting? 
>>
>>   
>
Hi,

in kernel 2.6 there is not ipsec interface any more. You  have to do
filtering with the policy module of iptables. See man iptables for more.

Michael.