Hello Tomas, Fortunately for you, this has been adequately documented! Please visit the following site for the overview of "why". http://www.quintillion.com/moat/ipsec+routing/ipsec+routing.html Once you have read that, there's a more detailed (HOWTO-like) description here: http://www.quintillion.com/moat/ipsec+routing/iproute2.html And here's the "main page" with links to other related documentation which may answer some of your more general questions. http://www.quintillion.com/fdis/moat/index.html -Martin : hello, anyone using freeswan and iproute2 with policy routing? freeswan : creates routes for VPN destination networks and puts them in the main : table, or for you that use the route command, the only table. : : anyway, this is causing me troubles since i want to keep the main table : free from the VPN networks, i want them in a special table and use that : table in conjunction with ip rule. : : a clue anyone? : : regards, : : tomas bonnedahl : _______________________________________________ : LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl : http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ : -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com