Hi Tobias,

I added the address to `eth0` and now strongswan inserts the proper
route. So I think I'm all set!

Thanks for your insightful help,

Bas

On 20 March 2015 at 18:54, Tobias Brunner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Bas,
>
>> My question now is to which interface should I attach 172.16.48.17?
>
> It doesn't really matter.  If you don't actually suffer from #197 [1],
> i.e. if you use strongSwan 5.0.1 or newer, you can add it to `lo`.
> Adding it to eth0 does work too, that's what strongSwan does by default
> when it installs virtual IPs it gets assigned dynamically from other
> peers [2].  Routers on the Internet won't route packets with that
> destination address to your host so it doesn't make much of a difference
> if you install it on an interface connected to it or not.
>
> Regards,
> Tobias
>
> [1] https://wiki.strongswan.org/issues/197
> [2] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/VirtualIp
>
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