[Swan] cannot get traffic to lan when using xauth and pool address is on lan segment

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Mon Apr 17 14:46:51 UTC 2017


On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Antonio Silva wrote:

> Correcting if i'm wrong, but digging a litle more, there won't be any mac 
> associated with the ip/vpn client, so there is no arp entry in the server, 
> even with proxy-arp enabled  the lan devices will never be able to reach the 
> vpn client.. because not arp will be found in the server. So i always have to 
> set a different network, like in the 2) setup, no?

proxy arp fixes that. The linux/libreswan serer will use its own MAC for
all IP addresses it handed out to the clients.

Paul


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