[strongSwan] site 2 site does not work ...

Andreas Steffen andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
Wed Jun 6 17:53:21 CEST 2012


Oops, I forget to add the nat table:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.1.0/22 -o eth0 -m policy \
                --dir out --pol ipsec --proto esp -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.1.0/22 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

Andreas

On 06/06/2012 05:37 PM, Andreas Steffen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a normal net2net connection should do the trick:
> 
> http://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults/ikev2/net2net-cert/
> 
> with
> 
>   left=3.3.3.123
>   leftsubnet=3.3.3.0/22
>   right=2.2.2.2
>   rightsubnet=10.0.1.0/24
> 
> Just make sure that in the 10.0.1.0/24 network there is
> a route to the 3.3.3.0/22 net via the [default] gateway
> 10.0.1.1 and in the 3.3.3.0/22 network a route exists
> which directs traffic for the 10.0.1.0/24 network to
> 3.3.3.123.
> 
> If gateway 2.2.2.2 is NAT-ing traffic from the 10.10.1.0/24
> network towards the Internet then you must exempt the traffic
> to be tunneled from the NAT rule by inserting an IPsec
> policy rule into your firewall:
> 
> iptables -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.1.0/22 -o eth0 -m policy \
>             --dir out --pol ipsec --proto esp -j ACCEPT
> 
> iptables -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.1.0/22 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> 
> assuming the 2.2.2.2 is eth0.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 06/06/2012 02:41 PM, Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to find out how build something like a
>> side2side connection using strongswan.
>> We have an external host with a private subnet (10.0.1.0/24).
>> This subnet should be visible from the gw host and all
>> hosts within the subnet of gw host.
>> Here is an overview
>>
>>
>>            external host
>> 10.0.1.0/24 - 10.01.1     2.2.2.2
>>
>>
>>
>>            gw host
>>         3.3.3.0/22 - 3.3.3.123
>>
>>
>>
>> So how can I make the external network accessaible
>> from our network ?
>> I did not find any example (or did not look at the right place ..).
>> The host-host connection is working fine, but a ping into the external
>> network does not reach the destination, but can be seen in the log of
>> the external host. Therefore the routing (in both directions) seems to
>> be the problem.
>>
>> Any help would be welcome!
> 
> ======================================================================
> Andreas Steffen                         andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
> strongSwan - the Linux VPN Solution!                www.strongswan.org
> Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications
> University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
> CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland)
> ===========================================================[ITA-HSR]==


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Andreas Steffen                         andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
strongSwan - the Linux VPN Solution!                www.strongswan.org
Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications
University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland)
===========================================================[ITA-HSR]==




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