On Tuesday 18 March 2003 10:59 am, Brent Wiese wrote:
> It's a common mistake to do both gif and ipsec.
>
> I realize many of the handbooks you find say to do it. They're wrong.
> They've been contacted and most won't change them, which just
> misleads more people.
>
> Use ipsec in tunnel mode instead of transport and ditch gif.

I've heard that before. So with a RELENG_4 system I dropped my gif 
tunnel and it worked!

Then some time after 4.7-RELEASE somebody changed something so that the 
contents of an ESP packet could not be distinguished by ipfw from 
non-ESP packets on the same interface. So my rule for blocking RFC 1918 
addresses on the public interface was blocking my own tunneled packets.

Then I reverted the system to RELENG_4_7 and my IPSec tunnel failed to 
operate until I resumed initializing the gif interface as I was 
originally doing.

/etc/ipsec.conf looks like this:

flush;
spdflush;
spdadd 10.0.0.253/24 192.168.100.253/24 any -P out ipsec
        esp/tunnel/city_one-city_two/require ;
spdadd 192.168.100.253/24 10.0.0.253/24 any -P in ipsec
        esp/tunnel/city_two-city-one/require ;

/etc/rc.conf has this:

# added 4/30/2002 for VPN to city_two
ipsec_enable="YES"
gif_interfaces="gif0"   # removed 11/17/2002 dmk

# from here to there...
gifconfig_gif0="city_one city_two"
ifconfig_gif0="inet 10.0.0.253 192.168.100.253 netmask 255.255.255.255"

# the VPN route:
static_routes="city_two"
route_city_two="-inet 192.168.100.0/24 -interface 192.168.100.253"

Other than racoon, that's what it took. So why did I have to fire up 
gif0? For a while with RELENG_4 the gif entries in /etc/rc.conf were 
not needed. I have never seen any hits on my gif rules in ipfw.

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