[Openswan Users] Problem when I run on PPPoE

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, pizhang at cse.psu.edu wrote:

> I am now trying to run freeswan 1.99 on a PPP link (I use PPPoE). But I
> get problem to start my ipsec connection.
> In my test, the ppp connection is working(because I can run "ping" and
> "ssh" ove the PPP link), but each time I start my ipsec connection, I
> found the STATE_MAIN_I1 message was block, the error message generated by

> "mytest" #1: ERROR: asynchronous network error report on ppp0 for message
> to 11.11.11.2 port 500, complainant 11.11.11.2: Connection refused [errno
> 111, origin ICMP type 3 code 3 (not authenticated)]

This means that 11.11.11.2 is telling you it is not listening on port 500.

> I have check on both machines(using ipsec verify), the klips and pluto is
> ok. And I have turned the firewall off.

Are you binding to the ppp interface/ip address with pluto? Was does
"netstat -an|grep :500" say on 11.11.11.2 ?

Paul