[Openswan Users] VPN setup between dedicated server and CISCO firewall

Paul Young paul at arkig.com
Mon Nov 4 21:44:05 UTC 2013


Although not directly related - on a Centos box this will help

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http://www.couyon.net/1/post/2013/02/ipsec-on-rhel6centos6-dont-do-it.html
net.ipv4.xfrm4_gc_thresh = 65536

in /etc/sysctl.conf

Cheers


On 5 November 2013 06:16, Leto <letoams at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> sent from a tiny device
>
> On 2013-11-04, at 7:39, "Rishad Ali" <rishad.ali at turnkey-instruments.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to setup VPN between my dedicated server (centOS) and a
> another company. I want to terminate VPN on my dedicated server which I
> access remotely and the other company terminates their VPN on a CISCO
> firewall.
>
> (I have been given their Internal IP address and external Gateway IP
> address to setup on openswan.)
>
>
>
> My first problem is, I do not have a network behind my server, so what
> should be my *internal IP address* in the ipsec.config (should I use the
> same public IP address for both internal and external )
>
>
> you can just leave out leftsubnet=
>
>
>
>
>
> Secondly, when I run ipsec verify, below is the output
>
>
>
>
> it's odd that it shows ip
> xfrm is broken on centos. that is normally not a problem. do you have the
> iproute  package installed?
>
>
> Checking if IPsec got installed and started correctly:
>
>
>
> Version check and ipsec on-path                              [OK]
>
> Openswan U2.6.39/K2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 (netkey)
>
> See `ipsec --copyright' for copyright information.
>
> Checking for IPsec support in kernel                        [OK]
>
> NETKEY: Testing XFRM related proc values
>
>          ICMP default/send_redirects                            [OK]
>
>          ICMP default/accept_redirects                        [OK]
>
>          XFRM larval drop
>                 [OK]
>
> Hardware random device check                                [N/A]
>
> Checking rp_filter
>                 [ENABLED]
>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/rp_filter          [ENABLED]
>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/rp_filter                     [ENABLED]
>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/rp_filter               [ENABLED]
>
> Checking that pluto is running                                    [OK]
>
> Pluto listening for IKE on udp 500                             [OK]
>
> Pluto listening for IKE on tcp 500                              [NOT
> IMPLEMENTED]
>
> Pluto listening for IKE/NAT-T on udp 4500            [DISABLED]
>
> Pluto listening for IKE/NAT-T on tcp 4500             [NOT IMPLEMENTED]
>
> Pluto listening for IKE on tcp 10000 (cisco)           [NOT IMPLEMENTED]
>
> *Checking NAT and MASQUERADEing                     [TEST INCOMPLETE]*
>
> *Checking 'ip' command                                                [IP
> XFRM BROKEN]*
>
> Checking 'iptables' command                                     [OK]
>
>
>
> It says,
>
> *Checking NAT and MASQUERADEing                     [TEST INCOMPLETE]*
>
> *Checking 'ip' command                                                [IP
> XFRM BROKEN]*
>
>
>
> How to fix this?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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