Am 26.02.2013 23:35, schrieb Justin Grover: > Hello StrongSwanners, > > I'm just getting started with strongswan. I've successfully installed > a strongswan sever (ubuntu 12.04) with IPAddress 192.168.0.50. I'm > attempting to connect to the server using a strongswan client > (ubuntu) installed on the same network with IPAddress 192.168.0.75, > but the connection is failing. I'm confused to what "left=" and > "right=" mean in the ipsec.conf file. > > Right now they are set to %any. Can somone explain what they mean? > > I've tried looking at the documentation > (http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/IpsecConf), > but that did not help. > > Thanks, > Justin > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.strongswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users Each of them defines one side of the connection. You could, for example, define the parameters for the "left" side to be the settings for your own side or the other side. E.g. use "left" for the client's settings and "right" for the server's setting and vice versa.
Sincerely, Noel _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.strongswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users
