[strongSwan] Problem connecting to a Cisco Unity gateway

Bas van Dijk v.dijk.bas at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 17:48:11 CET 2015


Hi Tobias,

Sorry for the late reply.

It seems my strongswan doesn't setup the route since `ip route list
table 220` doesn't show anything. I think I'm suffering from bug:
https://wiki.strongswan.org/issues/197.

As a work-around I will try to manually add the route:

  10.180.0.0/16 via <default GW> dev eth0 proto static src 172.16.48.16

Cheers,

Bas

On 18 February 2015 at 17:03, Tobias Brunner <tobias at strongswan.org> wrote:
> Hi Bas,
>
>> So am I right that the only thing left to do is configure my system so
>> that packets to hosts on the 10.180.0.0/24 subnet appear to come from
>> a host on the 172.16.48.16/28 subnet?
>>
>> To accomplish this I already added the additional IP address
>> 172.16.48.16 to my NIC (besides the DHCP configured 192.168.42.162).
>>
>> What's the next step? Do I need to add a route or some iptables rule?
>
> strongSwan should find the address you added to the NIC and install an
> appropriate route to routing table 220 automatically.  You may check
> with `ip route list table 220`.  This route will look similar to this:
>
>   10.180.0.0/16 via <default GW> dev eth0 proto static src 172.16.48.16
>
> This should force 172.16.48.16 as source address for packets sent to
> hosts in 10.180.0.0/16.  (Depending on how the other peer is configured
> you might want to try a different IP from your source subnet e.g. .17,
> because .16 is the network ID, while .31 is the broadcast address).
>
> Regards,
> Tobias
>


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