<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>try avoiding some strange characters in the psk. ensure you're not mixing up ASCII vs hex?<br><br>sent from a tiny device </div><div><br>On 2013-09-23, at 10:09, Paul Young <<a href="mailto:paul@arkig.com">paul@arkig.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Guys,<div><br></div><div>What other reasons other than mismatched PSKs could cause this issue?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 September 2013 18:46, Paul Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@arkig.com" target="_blank">paul@arkig.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I also just tried replacing the PSK on both sides and got the same issue continued</div><div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 September 2013 18:39, Paul Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@arkig.com" target="_blank">paul@arkig.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>After rebooting one side of my Openswan setup without changing config and so on I am getting this error and cannot create a tunnel anymore.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The reason I rebooted the host is I applied a bunch of firmware updates to the hardware.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Sep 23 18:33:23 lobster pluto[38968]: "conn"[11] <outside IP address> #55: next payload type of ISAKMP Identification Payload has an unknown value: 23</div><div>Sep 23 18:33:23 lobster pluto[38968]: "conn"[11] <outside IP address> #55: probable authentication failure (mismatch of preshared secrets?): malformed payload in packet</div>
<div>Sep 23 18:33:23 lobster pluto[38968]: | payload malformed after IV</div><div>Sep 23 18:33:23 lobster pluto[38968]: | 74 40 8b d3 5a 30 3e 52 dc 54 26 a5 d9 88 bc e9</div><div>Sep 23 18:33:23 lobster pluto[38968]: | e4 ea 8e 4b</div>
<div>Sep 23 18:33:23 lobster pluto[38968]: "conn"[11] <outside IP address> #55: sending notification PAYLOAD_MALFORMED to <outside IP address>:500</div></div><div><br></div><div>I have triple checked the PSK and it appears to be fine. What am I missing?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Paul</div></div>
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