Hello Andreas,

Has this issue been taken care of in later versions of strongswan?

Regards,
Nithin

> Hi Pavel,

> thank you very much for your patch. We are fully aware of the
> fact that the NETKEY stack does not require the setting up
> of any routes. And actually the "charon" IKEv2 daemon currently
> does not do any routing. Therefore rather than to introduce a
> needsroute parameter in strongswan-4.x we are going to add routes only
> in the presence of a Virtual IP (leftsourceip parameter). This means that
> we are going to change the behaviour of the "pluto" daemon in one of
> the next releases of strongswan-4.x.

> Best regards

> Andreas

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:24:14 +0400, Pavel Levshin <Pavel at
Levshin.spb.ru <https://lists.strongswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users>>
wrote:
>>* *>>* I've made it possible to tell pluto do not route particular 
>>connections.*>>* Here is the patch. It should be considered draft and 
>>unstable, but it*>>* works for me.*>>* *>>* It adds one more optional 
>>parameter to connection description:*>>* needsroute=[yes|no]*>>* (yes by 
>>default).*>>* *>>* When needsroute=no, conventional routing will not be 
>>checked for this*>>* connection, and updown route will not be invoked. This 
>>makes transport*>>* mode with Netkey stack happy. I believe that this should 
>>be default for*>>* transport mode - for strongSwan4, in particular.*>>* *>>>* 
>>But in Netkey stack, there is no interfaces to route plaintext*>>>* traffic. 
>>I suspect that Pluto does not need to play with routes at*>>>* all, because 
>>all routing for gateways should be in place before we*>>>* start. In my case, 
>>this should be done using source routing.*>>>* Therefore, my question: isn't 
>>it feasible to remove some routability*>>>* checks for transport mode? Am I 
>>missing anything?*>>* *>>* 
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