Re: [Users] tunnelling within a subnet?

From: Ken Bantoft (ken_at_freeswan.ca)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 05:09:35 CEST


On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Devjit N Gopalpur wrote:

> Can i configure freeswan to work without a gateway or DNS ? I want to use
> an ipsec tunnel between two machines on the same subnet (both behind the
> same gateway). Neither machine has a public IP.
>
> Thanks,
> Devjit Gopalpur
>

Yes, you can do this.

Either omit the (left|right)nexthop, or set them to the IP of the other
side of the tunnel if you don't have a router/default gateway on the
subnet.

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