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Magd
Asked: 2012-08-17 14:58:41 +0800 CST

Routing over a VMware centos server running Cisco VPN

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I need help routing over a virtual server to a IPSec tunnel.

I have:

Mac OS laptop (10.20.4.0/24)

VMware Fusion

Centos running on VMware (192.168.141.0/24) that has a Cisco IPSec tunnel (10.255.254.0/24)

Remote servers on the other side of the tunnel. (10.0.11.0/24)

The Cisco IPSec Tunnel is up.

I want my mac to access the remote servers over the tunnel.

I have turned on routing on the centos server. I have added a static route on the mac pointing at 192.168.141.137 (centos server) for the remote servers (10.0.11.0/24). What other changes do I need to make for this routing?

centos

1 Answers

  1. The VPN head-end would need a route back to your Mac's IP (10.20.4.x) which the Centos box would need to send via the Mac's 192.168.141.x address - unless you have some kind of masquerading / NAT setup on the Centos side.

    Generally Cisco has good support on the native Mac side for VPN access, however - particularly the OS X native IPSEC client (at least since 10.6). If you're not trying for some specific lab setup I'd suggest simplifying the whole thing.

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