[Openswan Users] Openswan Vista Client through l2tp can't finish connection

[Jacco de Leeuw]

James wrote:

> i have a problem with ONE vista client in my network and i can't 
> figure out what's wrong with it

Difficult to say what's special about this particular client.
Does it happen to have the same subnet as the remote network?

> FAIL L2TP LOGS(user's failing vista l2tp client)
> Nov 20 13:41:19 vpnserv l2tpd[2767]: receive_window_size_avp: peer wants 
> RWS of 8.  Will use flow control.
> Nov 20 13:41:19 vpnserv l2tpd[2767]: control_finish: Peer requested 
> tunnel 4 twice, ignoring second one.
> Nov 20 13:41:19 vpnserv l2tpd[2767]: control_xmit: Unable to deliver 
> closing message for tunnel 59212. Destroying anyway.

Might have to see more of that log. E.g., which side decides to disconnect
and why.

> #395: received Delete SA(0x9ef5b59d) payload: deleting IPSEC State #396

Openswan thinks the other side disconnected. You could have a look at
Vista's PPP and IPsec logs:
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/vista-openswan.html#Windows_logs
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-l2tp.html#Troubleshooting

Jacco
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