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<div>I’ve created a tunnel between two hosts using strongswan on RHEL 7.5. I can ping from both ends, but there is no new route in my routing table:</div>
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<div>$ sudo systemctl stop strongswan </div>
<div>$ route -n</div>
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<div>Kernel IP routing table</div>
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<div>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface</div>
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<div>0.0.0.0 172.31.16.1 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0</div>
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<div>172.17.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 docker0</div>
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<div>172.31.16.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 100 0 0 eth0</div>
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<div>172.31.16.50 172.31.16.9 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0</div>
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<div>192.168.1.0 172.31.16.9 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0</div>
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<div>$ sudo systemctl start strongswan </div>
<div>$ route -n</div>
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<div>Kernel IP routing table</div>
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<div>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface</div>
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<div>0.0.0.0 172.31.16.1 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0</div>
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<div>172.17.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 docker0</div>
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<div>172.31.16.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 100 0 0 eth0</div>
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<div>172.31.16.50 172.31.16.9 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0</div>
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<div>192.168.1.0 172.31.16.9 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0</div>
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I dont understand how this is possible. Is there another lower-level routing table?</div>
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