Hi,

We have basically implemented the IKEv2 using EAP-MSCHAPv2 Road Warrior 
configuration.  We are using 2 Android phones with the StrongSwan app on each 
as road warriors.  This is working in that we can authenticate and the road 
warrior phones each create their own tunnels to the StrongSwan server and get a 
assigned a unique address in the 10.3.0.0/24 subnet.  They can also see into 
the private LAN (10.1.0.0/24 subnet) sitting behind the VPN server.  However, 
the road warriors can't see each other over the VPN (i.e., road warrior1 (VPN 
IP 10.3.0.1) can't ping road warrior2 (VPN IP: 10.3.0.2), yet they can see 
eachother outside the VPN.


This makes sense after reading this text found in the StrongSwan Intro:


The mentioned distinction between policies and SAs often leads to 
misconceptions. For instance, referring to the image above, if host moon has a 
site-to-site tunnel to host sun (connecting the two networks 10.1.0.0/24 and 
10.2.0.0/24), and host carol has a roadwarrior connection to host sun (from 
which carol received a virtual IP address of 10.3.0.10), then carol wont be 
able to automatically communicate with alice, even if forwarding is enabled on 
sun. This is because there is no IPsec policy allowing traffic between carol 
(10.3.0.10) and alice (10.1.0.10). An additional SA between moon and sun, 
connecting the virtual subnet 10.3.0.0/24 with 10.1.0.0/24 would be a possible 
solution to this issue.


Not the exact same scenario, since both aren't road warrior connections, but it 
sounds like the same issue.


So, my question is, what do I need to added to ipsec.conf so that each Road 
Warrior that gets added (I want to have more than 2) to 10.3.0.0/24 can see the 
others as well as the 10.1.0.0/24 private network after authenticating to the 
VPN?


I assume that the traffic going between the 10.3.0.0/24 virtual IP tunnels 
still goes to the VPN server first and not directly to the Road Warrior.  But I 
wouldn't mind some clarity on that as well.


Thanks,

Daniel J. Levine
A3C4 Section Supervisor
Air and Missile Defense Department
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Phone: (443) 778-3952  (240) 228-3952
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