[Openswan Users] Problem With Ipsec Automatic Connection...(Openswan-2.3.0)

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, mohan chandra wrote:

> Following is the error appeared when trying to up the
> automatic connection b/w two hosts
>
> ## for psk-other connection ( secret )
> [root at mohan root]# ipsec auto --add psk-other
> [root at mohan root]# ipsec auto --up psk-other
> 104 "psk-other" #36: STATE_MAIN_I1: initiate
> 010 "psk-other" #36: STATE_MAIN_I1: retransmission;
> will wait 20s for response
> 010 "psk-other" #36: STATE_MAIN_I1: retransmission;
> will wait 40s for response
> 031 "psk-other" #36: max number of retransmissions (2)
> reached STATE_MAIN_I1.  No response (or no acceptable
> response) to our first IKE message
> 000 "psk-other" #36: starting keying attempt 2 of at
> most 3, but releasing whack
> [root at mohan root]#

Eitehr teh other end immediately drops the first (wrong) packet
and logs the error, or the IKE packet is not reaching the other
machine (firewall rules)

Paul