[Openswan Users] ipsec connection will be lost

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:

> I have setup ipsec with openswan in CentOS 5. It works. But,
> connectivity of some tunnels will be lost? at that time, If we ping
> other tunnels, It  work. Why  happens to some tunnels only?

That's a specific problem you have. We would need more information to
determin what is going on.

> Currently , it has 16 tunnles? How many tunnels can Ipsec handle?

Some people have used several thousand tunnels at once (with KLIPS and
with NETKEY)

> it has up to 16 tunnels
> 
> ip address 1.2.3.4 is in my side. It is NOT the real one. For securiy
> resone, I would not like to give it
> 
> ip address 5.6.7.8 is in the other side. It is NOT the real one. For
> securiy resone, I would not like to give it

You have a configuration for 1 tunnel. How do you have "16 tunnels"?

Paul