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Hello,<br><br>I am having trouble trying to setup Openswan using ipv6.<br>I get the error <br><br># service ipsec restart<br>ipsec_setup: Stopping Openswan IPsec...<br>ipsec_setup: stop ordered, but IPsec does not appear to be running!<br>ipsec_setup: doing cleanup anyway...<br>ipsec_setup: Starting Openswan IPsec U2.4.9/K2.6.18-prep...<br>ipsec_setup: unable to determine address of `eth1'<br><br>There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the interface it's trying
to use. I can ping it using ping6 command, and ping from and to another
host <br>
(connected via crossover) setup up in the same way with antoher ipv6 address.<br><br>Everything works perfectly when i use ipv4 addresses.<br>I've tried Klips and netkey both with the same error.<br><br>Does Openswan 2.4.9 work with ipv6 out of the box or is there any patches required?<br><br># ifconfig eth1<br>eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:87:5C:5A<br> inet6 addr: 2001:db8:1:1::1/64 Scope:Global<br> inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe87:5c5a/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000<br> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5300 (5.1 KiB)<br> Interrupt:225 Base address:0xe400<br><br><br>Following is my ipsec.conf<br>#############################################################<br><br>version 2.0 # conforms to second version of ipsec.conf specification<br><br># basic configuration<br>config setup<br> interfaces=ipsec0=eth1<br> klipsdebug=none<br> plutodebug=none<br> uniqueids=yes<br><br># Add connections here<br>#conn %default<br># keyingtries=0<br><br>conn ipv6-to-ipv6<br> connaddrfamily=ipv6<br> left=2001:db8:1:1::1<br> leftrsasigkey=0sAQOjfaHR/hv0Quh... RgsD/quh<br> right=2001:db8:2:2::2<br> rightrsasigkey=0sAQOmYfm+ .. ....bjbFg9w8wp<br> esp=3des-hmac_sha1<br> authby=rsasig<br> type=tunnel<br> auto=add<br><br>include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/no_oe.conf<br><br><br>################################################################<br><br>Regards,<br>Pól Whelan<br><br /><hr />Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give. <a href='http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join' target='_new'>Learn more.</a></body>
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