[Swan] [Bug 86] left=%defaultroute does not work in a conn

[Wolfgang Nothdurft]

Am 08.05.2014 12:48, schrieb bugs at libreswan.org:
> https://bugs.libreswan.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86
>
> --- Comment #30 from Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> 2014-05-08 13:48:35 EEST ---
> This is where I am a little confused. I patched the source by hand and
> recompiled the rpm. I then installed the rpm with a -Uvh --force as it is the
> same version number as I was running and then I tested. As far as I know I am
> running the patched version so I don't understand why the table number is not
> displayed. One thing I did notice was that when I changed left to IP I no
> longer got the whole routing table dumped when doing the addconn --verbose.
> Does it mean there is another place which needs patching.
>

I think we better use the mailing list for this.

Are you sure the latest patch applied properly and you have not one of 
the first ones applied.

That would explain the change of the addconn behaviour without the table 
id output.

You can have a look in the rpmbuild folder if addconn.c is correctly 
patched.

 > Regarding the left and leftnexthop = %defaultroute, in Openswan 
leftnexthop is
 > not needed and from the man pages is implied as soon as you make left =
 > %defaultroute (perhaps also with interfaces=%defaultroute). See 
comment 13.
 > Tuomo does not accept that and said the man pages are wrong, but why 
then does
 > Openswan work? I believe Paul Wouters agrees with my view.
 >

In openswan addconn get the info from command line parameters, which was 
changed in libreswan.