Thanks Paul, but I am using Digitial Ocean and the VPS has a public, static IP address on eth0.

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From: Paul Wouters ??<[email protected]>
To: Darren Share <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 23:11:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [Swan] Can't route back down ipsec tunnel from VPS
  
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Darren Share wrote:

> Can you elaborate? The only use of "elastic IP" I'm aware of is regarding AWS, is that what you mean? I am using a VPS on DigitalOcean for this project if that helps.

Normally in AWS, you get a "static" elastic IP assigned. This public IP
is NAT'ed to your virtual machine. But your virtual machine only has
RFC1918 addresses configured on it. Because the AWS NAT router will
NAT it to your static elastic IP.

Now when you do a VPN in tunnel mode, the packet you are sending
needs to be "from" your public IP. But you don't have it configured
on your virtual machine itself. So you cannot create a source packet
with that IP. The usual solution is to configure it as an alias on
the loopback or ethernet interface.

See: https://libreswan.org/wiki/Interoperability#Amazon_EC2

Paul

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