[Openswan Users] Help required: Trouble setting up openswan

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Phil Wild wrote:

> I posted the below to the list about a week ago and did not get any
> responses. Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong with my
> configuration as I have not been able to get any further.

> > Nov 20 14:25:15 bravo ipsec__plutorun: ...could not start conn "bravo-zulu"
> > netstat -rn on host zulu shows:
> >
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> > 203.161.90.1    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 ppp0
> > 10.3.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth1
> > 192.168.10.0    203.161.90.1    255.255.255.0   UG        0 0          0 ppp0
> > 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U         0 0          0 ppp0

Blame your ISP if that is really the default route you got. Try changing to
something that might make sense. Run a traceroute and check what your real gateway
is, then do a "route add -host ipofgw dev ppp0" and "route add default gw ipofgw"

Paul