[Openswan Users] Hub-Spoke Configuration

[Leonard Wood]

Hi Daniel,

 

Thanks for responding.  I have not received any replies, yet.  After researching this extensively, I suspect my issue may be a result of using the netkey protocol (default) vs klips.  I don’t think netkey has the ability to route traffic between two local subnets.  I can run tcpdump on the local openswan (hub) instance and see ICMP packets coming in from the Spokes.

 

My thinking is because the entire payload and header are encrypted, and without some mechanism (i.e., klips) to decipher it, the datagram doesn’t know where to go once it reaches Openswan (Hub)

 

But I could be wrong.

 

Thanks,

 

Leonard

 

From: Daniel Cave [mailto:dan.cave at me.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 12:47 PM
To: Leonard Wood
Cc: users at lists.openswan.org
Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] Hub-Spoke Configuration

 


Hello Leonard 

 

Did you get any replies to this? 

 

I suspect you may be experiencing issues with firewall/security group/rules issues 

 

Have you tried establishing hub to spoke end connectivity on each side and end to end testing by connecting using netcat? 


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On 2 Mar 2016, at 20:00, Leonard Wood <leonardw at ufl.edu> wrote:

Does anyone have any documentation on setting up a ‘hub and spoke’ configuration using Openswan?

 

I have a scenario where I am connecting both Azure and AWS to a single Openswan instance using each prospective provider’s VPN gateway.  The tunnels come up and everything is fine with one exception.  Resources deployed in Azure cannot communicate with resources deployed in Aws, and vice versa.  Both can communicate with the Openswan instance, however.  The route tables are correctly setup in AWS and Azure so I am convinced its my configuration.

 

I have two connection entries in the ipsec.conf

 

(Spoke1) Azure = 172.16.0.0/23

(Spoke2) AWS = 10.10.10.0/23

Hub Network = Openswan = 192.168.1.0/24

 

I am also using netkey for the protocol.

 

Any help with getting nodes in spoke 1 to communicate with nodes in spoke 2 would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

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