Re: ipsec.

Jason White wrote:

With OpenSWAN, the main problem was that it sometimes didn't correctly bind to my interfaces during the boot process, including the PPP interface which is brought up by the ADSL card.

Possibly you can work around this by bouncing strongswan in the ppp ip-up.d and ip-down.d directories. I have the same card as you and that is where I do changes to policy routing.