On 16.03.2017 07:29, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> 
> There is a requriment from our client that we need a ipsec tunnel for 
> communication. 
> as per our experience with Openvpn we can do that very easily however IPsec 
> works very differently therefore i need your assistence. 

Policy based IPsec (which is used by default with strongswan) doesn't require 
special network devices.
Traffic is protected transparently on the physical interface. There's no 
problem with routing.

> now here is the confusion part leftsubnet is technically called encryption 
> domain in Cisco.
> so how come my public IP of a cloud VM can be in both role as remote peer and 
> encryption domain? this is very confusing part. 

IKE packets are excepted from IPsec processing. Anything else is subject to it. 
It works without adding special routes
to the routing table(s).


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Noel Kuntze

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