[Gllug] IPSec and firewalls

[Kim Hawtin]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:11:30PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> This is all theory for now but I'm looking into all this stuff. 
> 
> I want to set up a wireless network at home.  My home network is currently
> like this:
> 
> INTERNET <--> 10.12.34.1 <--> 10.12.34.*
> 
> and I want to have a wireless network in 10.12.35.* with IPSec between the
> wireless machines and the gateway.
> 
> SO
> 
> INTERNET <--> 10.12.34.1 <--> 10.12.34.*
>               10.12.35.1
>                    ^
>                    |
>                    \--> 10.12.35.*
> 
> So, IPSec between 10.12.35.1 and 10.12.35.* but I don't want the wireless
> machines to access 10.12.35.1 without going through IPSec.  Is it possible
> to firewall this access off on the router or is that going to stop IPSec?
> If I just firewall off tcp and udp will IPSec still get though?

it should, because IPSec has a different protocol number...

yours,

kim
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