[Openswan Users] Openswan on EC2 - Resolving IP confusions

[Neal Murphy]

On Thursday 23 December 2010 13:38:40 Hammad wrote:
> Hi Piavlo,
>
> Its a virtual interface. I created with;
>
> ifconfig eth0:0 *10.5.5.5* netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 10.5.5.255
>
> I have already used this scheme with OpenSWAN and virtual interface created
> this way. But in that case, my public IP was on interface eth0. But here on
> EC2, I see a new IP 10.254.254.254...

That's a private IP address. You seem to have a NAT device in there. Have you 
taken the necessary steps to 'work around' the NAT? Or are you expecting to 
use a publicly routable IP address?

N