you can do another form of tunnelling by using a netgraph interface. Assign the required address to the netgraph interface and then use the IP-over-UDP example in the netgraph examples. tehn set up teh security associations so that the UDP packets generated are encrypted.. this is basically the same as doing a gif interface, except using UDP as the carrier.
Be careful about creating loops however If I had copious free time I think IPSEC could be hacked to interract with netgraph to give the kind of interaction you are talkign about however. On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Lars Eggert wrote: > Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > >> http://www.x-itec.de/projects/tuts/ipsec-howto.txt > > > > Unfortunately this howto, like any other mention of IPsec & > > tunneling on the net uses the gif interface. Which is IPoverIP, and > > this does not seem to match with IPsec tunnel devices. > > There are no IPsec tunnel devices in KAME. IPsec defines "security > associations" (SAs), which are not represented as devices in the routing > table in KAME. Thus, you can't use routes to direct traffic into these > tunnel mode SAs, you need to set up your security policies with the > correct selectors (think firewall-like matching). > > *Many* tutorials on the net do not understand this disctinction, and > tell you to set up an IPIP tunnel (using a gif) and an IPsec tunnel > mode SA in parallel. This is a bad hack, since you (ab)use a side effect > of creating an IPIP tunnel device (it can be used for route entries) to > redirect traffic into your (separate) tunnel mode SA. Very roughly, you > set up the IPIP tunnel, then yank out the packets destined for it during > outbound processing and force them over an IPsec tunnel mode SA. > > Use EITHER IPsec tunnel mode alone OR IPIP tunnels and IP transport > mode (draft-touch-ipsec-vpn). Mixing both can work in some scenarios > where the dependencies between side effects are just right, but in > general, it's a broken approach. > > Lars > -- > Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Sciences Institute > http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message