[Openswan Users] Openswan site-to-site VPN not forwarding traffic down VPN tunnel

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Aaron Hicks wrote:

> The Openswan VPN tunnel starts automatically at start up and attaches itself
> to br0 (i.e. there is no ipsec0 interface), and  the bridge can ping servers
> on the remote network. It seems to have valid routes to the remote network.
> Unfortunatly I can't seem to get it to forward packets from other hosts on
> our network to the remote network. Tracert shows that requests just head
> straight to the edge router, and aren't being redirected by the bridge into
> the ipsec tunnel.

Indeed. a route from the edge router back to the bridge's IP address
resolved this issue :)

Paul