diff --git a/net/strongswan/Makefile b/net/strongswan/Makefile
index 2ff5ec51ad..f292290d47 100644
--- a/net/strongswan/Makefile
+++ b/net/strongswan/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=strongswan
 PKG_VERSION:=5.9.1
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_RELEASE:=3
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://download.strongswan.org/ https://download2.strongswan.org/
diff --git a/net/strongswan/files/ipsec.init b/net/strongswan/files/ipsec.init
index 63b7507a23..1881e1f14f 100644
--- a/net/strongswan/files/ipsec.init
+++ b/net/strongswan/files/ipsec.init
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ config_remote() {
 		local ipdest
 
 		[ "$remote_gateway" = "%any" ] && ipdest="1.1.1.1" || ipdest="$remote_gateway"
-		local_gateway=`ip route get $ipdest | awk -F"src" '/src/{gsub(/ /,"");print $2}'`
+		local_gateway=$(ip -o route get "$ipdest" | awk '/ src / { print gensub(/^.* src ([^ ]*) .*$/, "\\1", "g"); }')
 	}
 
 	[ -n "$local_identifier" ] && secret_xappend -n "$local_identifier " || secret_xappend -n "$local_gateway "