Re: XFRM programming with VRF enslaved interfaces

On 4/15/21 12:37 PM, David Ahern wrote:

[ cc Ben ]

On 4/15/21 9:51 AM, Rob Dover wrote:

quoted

Hi there,

I'm working on an application that's programming IPSec connections via XFRM on VRFs. I'm seeing some strange behaviour in cases where there is an enslaved interface on the VRF - was wondering if anyone has seen something like this before or perhaps knows how this is supposed to work?

Ben was / is looking at ipsec and VRF. Maybe he has some thoughts.

My thought is that openvpn is nearly impossible to use in interesting ways by itself,
and when added to vrf, it is too complicated for me to deal with.  I eventually managed to sort of get
it to work.  I forget the details, but I think I had to put the 'real' network device in one vrf
and the xfrm in another.  Probably I posted my example to the mailing list...

You do need recent kernel and openvpn to have a chance of this working.

Thanks,
Ben


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