[Openswan Users] DNAT and ipsec?

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Tue Mar 20 16:23:25 EDT 2007


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Scott Miller wrote:

> First a disclaimer, I'm not an Openswan guru, so it's possible I'm way
> off base. But, as a network/systems guy, it would seem to me that if the
> packet has hit the firewall rules, NETKEY should have already given
> control of that packet to the kernel, and the kernel has passed control
> to the firewall rules, so now it should be controlled by those firewall
> rules.

If only NETKEY worked that cleanly.... right now, even tcpdump cannot see
all the packets that pass through it. Simmilarly, not all tables see these
packets either.

Paul


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