Re: [Users] Multipath routing with Freeswan, possible?

From: Ken Bantoft (ken_at_freeswan.ca)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 22:00:02 CET


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On 12 Jan 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> Ken Bantoft <ken_at_freeswan.ca> writes:
>
> > There's probably a few other ways of doing it - find a way to get a single
> > path between the two sites, and then run IPsec over that.
>
> I often wish that Freeswan would handle encryption/authentication and nothing
> else, leaving the user to manually setup any routes that they want ... of
> course that might be counter the RFCs.

You'd be bypassing the entire idea of IPSec policies :) That being said,
you *can* do what you suggest (which is what I do) using GRE. Use GRE
over an IPSec tunnel between two hosts, and then route whatever you want
over it. I run ospf/bgp over the GRE tunnel to dynamically route stuff
over my VPN. Handy when I bring online a new subnet, since I don't have
to do any VPN configs. Not the most secure configuation, since a rogue
network that manages to inject a route would get access to more of my
network that I might like, but if that happens I'd got bigger issues to
worry about ;)

> Thanks for the info, if I come up with anything that I think people might
> find useful I'll followup with details.

Much appreciated.

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