[strongSwan] Routing Polices with IPTABLES not working

[Adrian Milanoski]

Hi Andrew,

IP forwarding is enabled 

cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
1

The packets are not getting NAT'd after they arrive back to my GW.

They are going back out my public as the originating IP that it was given from the virtual ip pool. E.g. 172.16.24.x

I may also add that I have only 1 default GW on my GW and that is for the public. I do not have a GW set for my private network.

I am trying to get it so that any packets that come from  172.16.24.x go back out to the private interface or to the default GW for that matter.


Regards,

Adrian Milanoski
Lab Administrator
BBOS WiFI VPN Dev. Security Testing 
Research In Motion Limited 
Tel.(289) 261-5801 | Cell: 647-289-6995
Email  amilanoski at rim.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Steffen [mailto:andreas.steffen at strongswan.org] 
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 4:15 AM
To: Adrian Milanoski
Cc: Users at lists.strongswan.org
Subject: Re: [strongSwan] Routing Polices with IPTABLES not working

Hi Adrian,

have you enabled IP forwarding on your VPN gateway?

  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

If yes, do you NAT packets from the private network behind the
gateway going towards the Internet?

If yes then you must exempt packets from the private network that
are intended to go through the IPsec tunnel from NAT with the
following iptables rule:

  iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING 1 -s <private network> -o eth0 \
           -m policy --dir out --pol ipsec --proto esp -j ACCEPT

Regards

Andreas

On 06.12.2012 19:37, Adrian Milanoski wrote:
> HI All,
> 
> I have a strongSwan 5.0 setup and configure using IKEv2 PSK in config
> mode with the GW providing a pool of addresses. However after the
> strongSwan client connects I can only ping the Private interface of the
> VPN GW.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone can assist me with what maybe going on and why
> packets are not routing out the private interface to the private
> networks default GW.
> 
> Why is it so difficult to get these packets flowing from the tunnel to
> the private network? I thought the certain commands were to add rules in
> to the IPtables and remove them when the tunnel is torn down.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
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