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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: "Prashant Batra (prbatra)" <prbatra@cisco.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IP forwarding on a linux IPSec gateway
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:47:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328032051.2018.15.camel@andy-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B97B134FACB2024DB45F524AB0A7B7F2059F2B32@XMB-BGL-419.cisco.com>

On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 15:31 +0530, Prashant Batra (prbatra) wrote:
> So, it's clear that linux gateway is able to protect the data and send
> to the connected gateway (ESP packets to outer IPs). And the second
> gateway is responding with ESP packet which is decoded on linux gateway
> and sent to the ip stack again by linux kernel (ICMP reply). But the
> reply doesn't reach the host on left subnet.

Didn't somebody else have a similar problem recently? He found that it
worked using one internet provider but not another. If you're not seeing
anything received in tcpdump in the left subnet, then I would suspect
that the packet is getting lost in the WAN somewhere. What happens when
you ping in the other direction?

Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-31 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27 10:01 IP forwarding on a linux IPSec gateway Prashant Batra (prbatra)
2012-01-31 17:47 ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
2012-01-31 18:11   ` Prashant Batra (prbatra)
2012-01-31 22:15     ` Andrew Beverley

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