OpenWRT demo setup¶

To get a quick look at a running strongSwan setup, we have built a small demo setup which runs without installation or configuration.
It is based on a UML kernel and two preconfigured OpenWRT images. It should run on any x86 Linux host.

You'll need the UML Utilities, and a SKAS3 patched host kernel is recommended, but not required.

Getting started¶

• Download the tarball containing the kernel and the images:
  

  wget http://download.strongswan.org/uml/strongswan-openwrt-demo.tar.bz2

• Extract the tarball
  

  tar jxvf strongswan-openwrt-demo.tar.bz2; cd strongswan-openwrt-demo

• start the two hosts as root
  

  sudo ./start

• Run the pre-configured connection on both hosts
  

  ipsec start --nofork

Other configurations¶

You can try other setups which only involve two hosts, have a look at the available configurations.

If you wan't to run complexer scenarios, you may try to set up the complete UML test environement.