how to see ipsec traffic

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Hello List,

I have an ipsec tunnel setup between my office and my home.
When I use tcpdump on my home system I can see the esp packets going 
both ways
but I only see the received de-encapsulated traffic not what is being 
sent back. How
can I see the unencrypted replys.

Below is an example of a tcpdump running on my home system while I am 
pinging it
from my office. I see the icmp echo request but not icmp reply.




sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -lni eth1 icmp or esp
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
09:49:49.616062 IP 65.162.182.15 > 24.144.77.138: 
ESP(spi=0x0702d979,seq=0x1)
09:49:49.635388 IP 10.0.129.1 > 192.168.2.1: icmp 64: echo request seq 0
09:49:49.635426 IP 24.144.77.138 > 65.162.182.15: 
ESP(spi=0x05191a81,seq=0x1)
09:49:50.617714 IP 65.162.182.15 > 24.144.77.138: 
ESP(spi=0x0702d979,seq=0x2)
09:49:50.617714 IP 10.0.129.1 > 192.168.2.1: icmp 64: echo request seq 256
09:49:50.617855 IP 24.144.77.138 > 65.162.182.15: 
ESP(spi=0x05191a81,seq=0x2)

kernel is 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4

Thanks,
Steve

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