[Openswan dev] bug report (auto=add &auto=start)

Alex linux at vfemail.net
Tue Jun 26 05:22:06 EDT 2007


Hi Paul & Michael,

See my comments inline:

> Interesting. The return code should not be non-zero, since your logs below
> show that absolutely nothing went wrong. It is probably non-zero,
> because the ipsec auto command returns before knowing if the connection
> succeeded, because of the default --asynchronous flag. It does a "fire
> and forget".
>
> Michael: Should we change auto to return 0 for this? Or change _plutorun
> to not care about the return code?

Is this problem handled by anybody or is considered closed. I couldn't see any 
fix about this bug.

> > So, a quick fixto this problem is to add to /etc/ipsec.conf:
> > config setup
> >     plutowait=yes
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is the wrong fix, because of you have dozens or hunderds of tunnels
> you will now start them up one after the other, instead of parallel.
>

OK, i agree with you, but what is the correct fix?

Regards,
Alex


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