The roadwarriors carol and dave set up a connection each to gateway moon. Both carol and dave request a virtual IP via the IKEv2 configuration payload. The gateway moon assigns virtual IP addresses from a pool named bigpool that was created in an SQL database by the command ipsec pool --name bigpool --start 10.3.0.1 --end 10.3.3.232 --timeout 0.

The updown script automatically inserts iptables-based firewall rules that let pass the tunneled traffic. In order to test the tunnels, carol and dave then ping the client alice behind the gateway moon. The source IP addresses of the two pings will be the virtual IPs carol1 and dave1, respectively.