[Openswan Users] Trouble with a Star Topo

Alex Crow acrow at integrafin.co.uk
Wed Feb 27 13:54:58 EST 2013


Hmm, your choice. I think you will have a lot of fun - just keep a clean 
copy of the kernel tree so you can reapply the patches from scratch 
after one fails.

I am curious why they have not been merged into the mainline kernel 
source - would solve a lot of grief. Anyone know?


On 27/02/13 18:25, Luis Nagaki wrote:
> so i am on 2.6.18 kernel and 2.6.16 or 2.6.22 patches are on that link 
> provided earlier. which patch do i go with? 2.6.16 or 22?
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Alex Crow <acrow at integrafin.co.uk 
> <mailto:acrow at integrafin.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     I only patched on Centos 6.x (I think) and it was a royal pain as
>     I could not find a specific patch for that kernel.
>
>     I had to go through the patches one by one and adjust line
>     numbers, offsets and even some of the code. Took me about 8 hours
>     in total but I got it working. Was a while back so perhaps newer
>     RHEL patches have been released, and in your case with 5.x it
>     might be easier.
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Alex
>
>
>     On 27/02/13 16:42, Luis Nagaki wrote:
>>     I hate spamming people,
>>
>>     but i also can not get the patch itself either
>>     ftp://ftp.openswan.org/openswan/development/
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Luis Nagaki
>>     <luis.nagaki at gmail.com <mailto:luis.nagaki at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         2.6.18-348.1.1.el5 kernel
>>
>>
>>         On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Luis Nagaki
>>         <luis.nagaki at gmail.com <mailto:luis.nagaki at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Ah yes sorry , all are different Private IP's. So no
>>             worries there.
>>
>>
>>             On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Alex Crow
>>             <acrow at integrafin.co.uk <mailto:acrow at integrafin.co.uk>>
>>             wrote:
>>
>>                 Sorry, to clarify if you have multiple clients behind
>>                 the same NAT it will be needed. I think it may also
>>                 be needed if you have multiple clients behind
>>                 different routers but with the same private IPs.
>>
>>
>>                 On 27/02/13 16:22, Luis Nagaki wrote:
>>>                 just a quick one.. on the central server or the client?
>>>
>>>
>>>                 On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Luis Nagaki
>>>                 <luis.nagaki at gmail.com
>>>                 <mailto:luis.nagaki at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                     Yes behind NAT, let me research how to do such.
>>>
>>>
>>>                     On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Alex Crow
>>>                     <acrow at integrafin.co.uk
>>>                     <mailto:acrow at integrafin.co.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                         Are your servers behind NAT? If so you will
>>>                         probably need to rebuild the kernels with
>>>                         the SAREF patches.
>>>
>>>
>>>                         On 27/02/13 15:31, Luis Nagaki wrote:
>>>>                         Hey guys, i did not notice until it was
>>>>                         deployed that 3 of the locations i sent a
>>>>                         Openswan server to had a star topo. All
>>>>                         their offices go through a central office
>>>>                         and then out to the internet. the 1st
>>>>                         location connected just fine but when the
>>>>                         2nd came on it through the 1st off. How can
>>>>                         i go around this to make i work?
>>>>
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