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Re: OpenBSD IPSEC VPN question


From: "Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:29:23 -0400

It's been a while since I've done it, but Linux used to make an ipsec0 interface that was handled with the standard 
routing table.  Possibly in *BSD you need to use a gre or gif tunnel to achieve the same thing?

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On Apr 30, 2013, at 20:45, Chris Buechler <fw-wiz () chrisbuechler com> 
[snip]
This is true of all the BSDs with IPsec (and maybe Linux and other
*nix OSes but not sure of those). Traffic that doesn't have a specific
source IP set gets the source IP that's closest to the destination per
the routing table. IPsec doesn't have a routing table entry, traffic
follows the SPD. So it ends up getting the IP that's nearest the
default gateway, which is most always a public IP, which is most
always not going to match the IPsec SPD. Traffic only goes across the
VPN if the source IP is set to a private local IP matching the SPD.
There's an ugly work around to add a static route pointing the remote
IPsec network to the LAN IP of the box, which will make the OS source
its traffic to that remote network appropriately and not require
specifying the source IP.

Regardless, having an option of what source IP to use for rsyslog
would come in handy in cases other than this and is probably a good
idea.

Chris
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