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Re: [Users] dynamic next hop address

From: Nate Carlson (natecars+freeswan_at_natecarlson.com)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 16:11:33 CEST


On 4 Jul 2002, Abdul-Wahid Paterson wrote:
> I have a dsl link with a static IP but the next hop is dynamic. For
> the first few weeks the remote IP of the dsl never changed but it now
> seems to change every now and then and I have consequently had to edit
> my ipsec.conf to reflect the new IP. Is there a way in the
> configuration file to allow a static IP for left but have leftnexthop
> dynamic? I tried setting leftnexthop=%any but that wouldn't work. Is
> leftnexthop strictly necessary?

Instead of specifying your IP address for left, use left=%defaultroute.
This will automatically set the nexthop entry.

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