[strongSwan] Running on AWS behind Elastic IP

[Turbo Fredriksson]

On 16 Nov 2016, at 17:56, Mathew Marulla <matt_m at me.com> wrote:

> If I am reading your reply correctly, it seems you are getting this to work by not using an elastic IP, but just the public IP of your instance.  Then using a script to update it as needed.  Maybe that’s the only way…
> 
> I will try removing the elastic IP and seeing if the instance is aware of it’s own public IP, i.e.; by looking in ifconfig.  Because the elastic IP certainly does not show up there.

No, that should be the _private_ IP! That’s the only one that StrongSWAN is/will be aware of
and that’s the IP it binds to..

It doesn’t need to know about the EIP.