[Openswan Users] Setup not working

[Shuveb Hussain]

Hi,
I have a setup thats something like this:
I dont need a strict VPN setup. Just trying to encrypt traffic between
2 PCs on a LAN. So I have created hostkeys on both systems and
included them in the conf files:

--------------------Host:Shuveb------------------------------------------------------
conn nova
        left=10.10.10.69
        leftid=@shuveb.nova.com
        leftrsasigkey=0sAQORrDe...
        right=10.10.10.53
        rightid=@kumaran.nova.com
        rightrsasigkey=0sAQOsaGCIav...
        auto=add

#Disable Opportunistic Encryption
include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/no_oe.conf

--------------------Host:Kumaran------------------------------------------------------
conn nova
        left=10.10.10.53
        leftid=@kumaran.novatium.com
        leftrsakey=0sAQOsaGCIav....
        right=10.10.10.69
        rightid=@shuveb.novatium.com
        rightrsakey=0sAQORrDe...
        auto=add

#Disable Opportunistic Encryption
include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/no_oe.conf
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There is no DNS or anything here... I was just trying to do a road
warrior config, but with a static IP. I just need traffic between
these 2 hosts to be encrypted. Later, I will add more connections to
host "kumaran" that will act like a server.

I have made sure that the ipsec service(pluto) is running on both
systems. But when I try to start the tunnel from host "shuveb", it
fails:

104 "nova" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: initiate
010 "nova" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: retransmission; will wait 20s for response
010 "nova" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: retransmission; will wait 40s for response
010 "nova" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: retransmission; will wait 40s for response
.........

What could be the issue?
Please CC replies to me, I'm not subscribed!

--shuveb