- An IPsec <b>transport-mode</b> connection between the natted host <b>alice</b> and gateway <b>sun</b>
- is successfully set up. <b>leftfirewall=yes</b> automatically inserts iptables-based firewall
- rules that let pass the decrypted IP packets. In order to test the host-to-host connection
- <b>alice</b> pings <b>sun</b>.<br/>
- <b>Note:</b> This scenario also demonstrates two problems with transport-mode and NAT traversal:
- <ol>
- <li>The client <b>venus</b> behind the same NAT as client <b>alice</b> is not able to ping <b>sun</b>
- (even with ICMP explicitly allowed there) because the request arrives unencrypted and thus gets
- dropped when the IPsec policies are consulted (increases the <em>XfrmInTmplMismatch</em> counter
- in <em>/proc/net/xfrm_stat</em>).</li>
- <li>A similar issue arises when <b>venus</b> also establishes an IPsec <b>transport-mode</b> connection to
- <b>sun</b>. Due to the conflicting IPsec policies <b>sun</b> will use the newer SA from
- <b>venus</b> to send traffic to the common transport mode address.</li>
- </ol>
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