IPSEC tunnel using loopbacks and PBR

[RonHarnik]

Hi,

I recently set up an IPSEC VPN between two routers, I used loopback interfaces as the two peers, but I had to configure PBR in order for the the tunnel to work. Do I have to always configure PBR when using loopbacks in IPSEC? if so then why won't it work with normal routing to the loopback interface?

Thanks,

Ron.

[Andrew Phirsov]

I can't think of anything preventing you from using regular routing. Just make the subnet on the remote site reachable through the loopback interface and vice-versa.