[Openswan Users] Openswan & TFTP

Julien Bonjean julien.bonjean at savoirfairelinux.com
Fri Nov 14 15:03:48 EST 2008


Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Julien Bonjean wrote:
>
>> Sorry if I wasn't clear. Openswan is already running on server 
>> because some clients may have already established a VPN with it. The 
>> problem is when another client wants to establish a connection or if 
>> a client reboot. For some security reasons we don't want to store 
>> ipsec.secrets and ipsec.conf in client initrd so it must retrieve 
>> them by tftp but server doesn't accept unencrypted connection as 
>> Openswan is already running (for other clients) ... I currently use a 
>> second unencrypted connection to retrieve files but I would like to 
>> avoid this.
>
> The running openswan should not be blocking new connection. 
Yes but we are talking about a non-crypted connection, Openswan is not 
running on client and will not until we get config files !
> Is there ip re-use
> without clearing out the previous ipsec tunnels?
>
> Paul

Julien
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