Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:58:06 -0700 From: Yu-Shun Wang <yushunwa@ISI.EDU> To: remko@FreeBSD.org, net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Routing IPSEC packets? Message-ID: <44E5F19E.9070600@isi.edu> In-Reply-To: <44E58E9E.1030401@FreeBSD.org> References: <44E58E9E.1030401@FreeBSD.org>
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Remko Lodder wrote: > Hi friends, > > I was looking around for using IPsec services instead of > OpenVPN services, but I found out that with our current > implementation of IPsec, we cannot actually route packets > through the various IPsec hops [1]. OpenBSD adds IPsec > flows in their routing table, making it possible to route > traffic between IPsec tunnels. > > Can someone either confirm my above statement that FreeBSD > is indeed not capable of doing this? It's not an implementation issue, but a design problem with IPsec tunnel mode. See RFC3884: <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3884.txt>; The proposed solution is to use IP-IP tunnel (gif iface in FreeBSD, which you can route) then apply IPsec transport mode on the outer header. Refer to the rfc for more detail. The policy will be different, but we've verified long ago with FreeBSD that it works. The packets on the wire is compatible with regular tunnel mode IPsec. yushun > In the case that does not exist yet, are there others that > also like this feature? And is there someone who can do > the coding in that case? (I am not skilled enough to do > this). > > I hope to get some good feedbacks :-) > > Please keep me CC'ed since I am not subscribed to the > list. > > Thanks a lot! > Cheers, > Remko >
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