Hello,

The documentation for freeswan/*swan (any that you may find on the net)
leaves much to be desired. And that is putting it mildly according to
some. There is lots of information, but typically hard follow.

One problem that I have is not being able to understand how it
routes/desides to route traffic. I actually gave up learning this part
with out first trying. Instead, I setup GRE tunnels and use kernel
routing and now zebra/ospfd for load balancing and failover. So far
this is working super. But I am still testing.

Anyway, try here:
http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-2.06/doc/index.html

Looks the same but more organized:
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/cryptography/FreeSWAN-HOWTO/HowTo.html

The man pages:
http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-2.06/doc/manpage.d/

Download and untar openswan-1.0.9.tar.gz and read the READMES and
CHANGES docs. I find them useful:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/leaf/src/bering-uclibc/apps/openswan/

More links:
http://www.av8n.com/vpn/ipsec+routing.htm

My two biggest hurdles were: a) learning through trial and error
instead of instructions, b) figuring out how to manage multiple *swan
installations (sooner or later you will have to start scripting).

Now, since we're on the subject, does any one know the specs for using
the ipsec_null.o module? Despite hours of searching, I still can't
figure this out.




                
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