> now, I got the tunnel setup just fine using just ipsec.conf. I was just > curios if there was a quick and simple way to to test traffic through > the tunnel since it is just a host to host configuration.
I'm curious to know why you don't think ping is a good tool to test this with ? run ping and run tcpdump. if tcpdump shows esp packets well you can assume the tunnel is working. If the tunnel shows icmp packets your tunnel probably doesn't work. -- Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
