[Fwd: Re: [LARTC] custom route for forwarded traffic]

Mohan Sundaram mohan.tux at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 03:47:54 CET 2007


Aleksander Kamenik wrote:
> Hi,
> If I add a rule to the main routing table in the users network's 
> firewall for servers network's external IP to go through the VPN, I will 
> break the VPN connection (kind of like the chicken and egg problem).
> 
This true only for cases like L3 IPSec where traffic to be encrypted is
based on src/dst IP combo. If you had a VPN virtual interface, this
should not be a problem. You can choose to route traffic of your choice.
Good examples is OpenVPN and L2 IPSec.

Mohan



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