showing esp tunnels in routing table

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Wed Sep 6 08:56:57 PDT 2006


Eric W. Bates wrote:
> 
> Phil Regnauld wrote:
>> Eric W. Bates (ericx_lists) writes:
>>> When you establish an esp tunnel, the subnets on the remote end of the
>>> tunnel do not seem to appear in either "netstat -nr" or 'route get
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
>>>
>>> Is there a way to display those routes other than using setkey to dump
>>> the SPD's?
>> 	No, because there are no routes.  The IPSec layer "hijacks" the packets
>> 	and they are encapsulated before the routing table gets a chance
>> 	to see them.
>>
>> 	You would have to setup transport ESP + gif/gre tunnels to see routing
>> 	entries.
> 
> Apparently, openbsd's implementation of netstat allows one to view ESP
> 'flows' (I believe that is how they refer to them) by examining the
> family 'encap'
> 
> netstat -rnf encap
> 
> We have no such equivalent?

openbsd integrated the SAD w/ the routing table; something I've wanted
to do forever.

	Sam


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