[Openswan Users] hi, does openswan support multiple instances on one server.?

Spacelee fjctlzy at gmail.com
Sat May 21 09:32:55 EDT 2011


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:57 PM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Spacelee,
>
> Please explain why you need staff and manager to use a different tunnel?
> Provide a use case or relatively detailed scenario.
>
> At this point I don't see why one tunnel wouldn't be fine for everything.
>

Hi, I just want to describe a situation, so I gave this example.

I may want the people who comes to my company to use a tunnel, to see what
they should see.

And I just wondering if L2TP could do this? Like OpenVPN. But OpenVPN is a
big trouble as it needs installing software.




>
> Regards,
> ---~~.~~---
> Mike
> //  SilverTip257  //
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 08:00, Spacelee <fjctlzy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Erich Titl <erich.titl at think.ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> on 21.05.2011 03:02, Spacelee wrote:
> >> > I see that OpenVPN supports this, so that each instances can listen on
> >> > different ports, so different clients could connect to different
> ports,
> >> > and each of client uses a unique tunnel.
> >> > Does OpenSwan support this?
> >>
> >> OpenSwan is fundamentally different to OpenVpn as in OpenSwan (IPSEC)
> >> there is no notion of a 'client'. You could probably call this an
> >> initiator.
> >>
> >> You can define multiple interfaces on a single host and each interface
> >> can have multiple connections. As most operations are handled in kernel
> >> space, as opposed to OpenVPN, where most things are done in user space,
> >> there is typically no need for multiple instances.
> >>
> >> What exactly do you want to achieve?
> >
> > for example, I have 2 ip address, and I need staff and manager use
> different
> > ip address.
> > 1. 192.168.1.100
> > 2. 192.168.1.101
> > Staff could use only ip1, and manager could only use ip2, and it's
> different
> > tunnel...The two ip addresses are binded to one machine. So I think I
> need
> > to start 2 openswan instances and two xl2tpd instances to severs this?
> >
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >> Erich
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Space Lee
> >
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