Re: Problem with IPSEC tunnel mode

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:18:19PM -0400, jamal wrote:
>
> So i was wondering whether they OUT shouldnt be just a duplicate of 
> FWD (instead FWD seems to be the dup of IN). Look at that sample i
> posted - all his policies look like that. What gives? Why are the IN and
> FWD exactly the same? bug in racoon/setkey?

FWD checks inbound IPsec policies while OUT determines the outbound
IPsec policies.

The IN direction is not used at all for forwarded packets.

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