<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">hi mailing list,<br> I managed to install openswan ipsec on a fedora 8 system with no serious problems but have hit a wall when it comes to establishing a connection between the two target systems. i have installed ipsec before and im sure that all the configs are okay and should work since i copied them from a working ipsec configuration and adopted them for the second system.<br><br>here is an extract of ipsec barf output:<br> <br>Sep 18 16:29:11 wakaholik pluto[11557]: "vpn2" #6: sending notification PAYLOAD_MALFORMED to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:500<br>Sep 18 16:29:31 wakaholik pluto[11557]: "vpn2" #6: next payload type of ISAKMP Hash Payload has an unknown value: 224<br>Sep 18 16:29:31 wakaholik pluto[11557]: "vpn2" #6: malformed payload in packet<br>Sep 18 16:29:31 wakaholik pluto[11557]: | payload malformed after IV<br>Sep 18 16:29:31
wakaholik pluto[11557]: | <br>Sep 18 16:29:31 wakaholik pluto[11557]: "vpn2" #6: sending notification PAYLOAD_MALFORMED to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:500<br>Sep 18 16:37:17 wakaholik pluto[11557]: "vpn2" #7: initiating Quick Mode PSK+ENCRYPT+TUNNEL+PFS+UP {using isakmp#3}<br>Sep 18 16:37:17 wakaholik pluto[11557]: "vpn2" #7: ERROR: netlink_get_spi for esp.0@YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY/4096/4294967295 failed with errno 22: Invalid argument<br><br><br>I get this error when i try to establish a connection using: ipsec auto --up vpn2<br><br>ipsec auto --up vpn2<br>003 "vpn2" #8: ERROR: netlink_get_spi for esp.0@YYY.YYY..YYY.YYY/4096/4294967295 failed with errno 22: Invalid argument<br><br>I have tried google and tinkering with my config files but the problem remains the same. What could be the cause the netlink error?<br><br></td></tr></table><br>