Hi Daniel,

The reason why it didn't work before was totally not related to
StrongS/WAN, adding the multiple routes works beautifully despite the
error.

I love this, thx,
Joep


Daniel Mentz wrote:
> Jessie Liu wrote:
>   
>> But If I add leftsourceip=%config in ipsec.conf, the SCTP packets will not 
>> go through the tunnel, but ping packets will. ...............If I remove 
>> leftsrouceip=%config from ipsec.conf, the SCTP packets will flow through the 
>> tunnel. Could you give me some hints what is happened and what should I 
>> check?  I am using kernel version 2.6.28.
>>     
>
> Hi Jessie,
>
> what about TCP and UDP traffic? Do those packets stick to the tunnel?
> Your problem might be related to SCTP's multi-homing feature where each 
> endpoint announces all of its IP addresses to the other peer. This is 
> important for fail-over scenarios.
> In your case this feature might be counter productive. Both peers try to 
> use all available paths that can be used to exchange data. But only one 
> path is protected by IPsec. So I guess you need to setup firewall 
> policies to block all alternative paths. This way you can force the SCTP 
> implementation to use only one (secure) path.
>
> Let's say host A has IP address 1.1.1.10 and 2.2.2.10. Host B has 
> 1.1.1.20 and 2.2.2.20. If host A initiates a connection to host B it 
> sooner or later tries all four different combinations of IP addresses in 
> the hope that the traffic flows on different paths if they switch the IP 
> addresses.
> TCP always sticks to the same pair of IP addresses.
>
> -Daniel
>
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