[Openswan Users] error message when starting ipsec

[Herbert Xu]

Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Vishal Dubey wrote:
> 
>> can anyone tell me what this erro message means when i start ipsec and how to 
>> fix it?
>>
>> ipsec auto --up bc2sun
>> 003 ERROR: "bc2sun" #3: netlink write() of XFRM_MSG_ALLOCSPI message for Get 
>> SPI esp.0 at 12.12.12.5 failed. Errno 111: Connection refused
> 
> I think this error shows up with the memory fragmentation issue with old
> versions of NETKEY when compression is enabled.

Actually this error means that the xfrm_user module isn't loaded.

Make sure that nothing is unloading it because it usually has a
reference count of zero.
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