[strongSwan] Strongswan HA behavior

2018-08-03 Thread Nathan Hüsken
Hi, I am currently trying around with getting strongswan HA to work on exoscale. Exoscale has no ClusterIP, but a so called "elastic ip" which I can move freely among my instances. I came up with a "proof of concept" on how this could work. But I am unsure if my assumption about how strongswan H

[strongSwan] HA Address pool with range

2018-08-02 Thread Nathan Hüsken
Hey, Here [1] it is described how to create a HA Address pool in strongswan. The example shows cidre notation, and when I try to use a address range: pools { vpnclients=192.168.1.10-192.168.1.100 } strongswan does not accept is. Is there a way do specify address ranges for these po

[strongSwan] strongswan HA on exoscale (no ClusterIP)

2018-07-29 Thread Nathan Hüsken
Hi, I am setting up strongswan in an exoscale account und try to make it as high available as possible. Exoscale does not support ClusterIP but has a feature called "Elastic IP". An elastic IP can be assigned and removed from any host via a command line tool. Can I use this in a strongswan act

Re: [strongSwan] Trouble with strongswan and dhcp server on same host

2018-07-24 Thread Nathan Hüsken
18 8:44 PM, Nathan Hüsken wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I thought I looked through logs for all errors. But you are correct, I > get: > > unable to bind DHCP send socket: Permission denied > > I get this error also if dnsmasq is stopped. And I can bind to udp port 67 > and 68 usi

Re: [strongSwan] Trouble with strongswan and dhcp server on same host

2018-07-24 Thread Nathan Hüsken
problem, but a permission problem. I find that kind if irritating. After all, strongswan can also bind port 500. Any ideas, how I could fix this? Thanks! Nathan -- Dr. Nathan Hüsken Cloud Developer nat...@wintercloud.de +49 151 703 478 84 wintercloud GmbH & Co. KG Emil-Maier-Str. 16 6

[strongSwan] Trouble with strongswan and dhcp server on same host

2018-07-23 Thread Nathan Hüsken
Hi, I have installed strongswan and dnsmasq (which also is used as a dhcp server) on the same host. I want to give remote computers ips through dnsmasq, so I set: righsourceip=%dhcp Now strongswan seemed to have problems reaching the dhcp server. So I set interface=eth1 in /etc/str

Re: [strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

2018-07-20 Thread Nathan Hüsken
Hey, OK, in the end my mistake was, that I believed the pkcs#11 Plugin was enabled in charon-nm, as it was only enabled in strongswan itself. It works now. Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for all the help! Nathan ​-- Dr. Nathan Hüsken Cloud Developer nat...@wintercloud.de +49 151

Re: [strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

2018-07-19 Thread Nathan Hüsken
not usable certificates on the smartcard). If charon-nm doest not support reading the private key from the smartcard, what is the point of this option? What am I missing here? Many thanks! Nathan ​-- Dr. Nathan Hüsken Cloud Developer nat...@wintercloud.de +49 151 703 478 84 wintercloud GmbH &

Re: [strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

2018-07-19 Thread Nathan Hüsken
st, Nathan ​-- Dr. Nathan Hüsken Cloud Developer nat...@wintercloud.de +49 151 703 478 84 wintercloud GmbH & Co. KG Emil-Maier-Str. 16 69115 Heidelberg wintercloud.de Sitz der Kommanditgesellschaft: Heidelberg, Registernummer der Kommanditgesellschaft im Handelsregister: AG Mannh

Re: [strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

2018-07-19 Thread Nathan Hüsken
ttps://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/SmartCards ​-- Dr. Nathan Hüsken Cloud Developer nat...@wintercloud.de +49 151 703 478 84 wintercloud GmbH & Co. KG Emil-Maier-Str. 16 69115 Heidelberg wintercloud.de Sitz der Kommanditgesellschaft: Heidelberg, Registernummer der Kom

Re: [strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

2018-07-19 Thread Nathan Hüsken
ot work? Nathan [1] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/NetworkManager#Smart-card-requirements ​-- Dr. Nathan Hüsken Cloud Developer nat...@wintercloud.de +49 151 703 478 84 wintercloud GmbH & Co. KG Emil-Maier-Str. 16 69115 Heidelberg wintercloud.de Sitz der Kommandi

[strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

2018-07-16 Thread Nathan Hüsken
Hello Everyone, I am new on this list, so hi :). I have trouble configuring a connection to my strongswan server using a smartcard and I need some help debugging the problem. I try to configure it via network-manager (with the module charon-nm). Here is the situation: * If I use private key