[strongSwan] Understanding IPsec through a firewall

2009-08-27 Thread Graham Hudspith
We've come across a problem sending UDP packets through a tunnel when the tunnel goes through a firewall and I was hoping someone can explain/confirm what is going on (please). Our machine sets up a tunnel to a secure gateway and then opens a UDP socket through that tunnel to a machine on the far

Re: [strongSwan] Understanding IPsec through a firewall

2009-08-27 Thread Gerd v. Egidy
Hi Graham, So, it appears that the UDP packets come through the tunnel, are decrypted and then looped-back through the firewall ? That is correct. I'm not too keen on opening the firewall to all UDP packets using that UDP port number. Is there a more elegant method ? Yes, you could use the