[Openswan Users] Strange Problem with L2TP/IPSec

[Ravi Verma]

My colleague and are on two different networks. In fact my laptop has
never on the network mentioned in the error.

We are connecting to the same subnet 10.4.0.0/16 NATed behind the same IP
address and the same VPN server.

Regards.

On Thu, September 1, 2005 2:44 pm, Paul Wouters said:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Ravi Verma wrote:
>
>> I am having a strange problem. I have an Openswan setup for VPN
>> connection
>> for L2TP/IPSec and Openswan-Openswan connection. It is running on Fedora
>> Core 4. I am able to connect to the VPN server with my Linux laptop and
>> from Windows XP from home without any problem.
>>
>> But when I my colleague tries to connect to the Openswan server, I
>> observe
>> an error in the /var/log/secure file at the Openswan server that my
>> laptop
>> has already used that virtual IP address my colleague is connecting
>> from.
>> while I or my Linux laptop has never been to that site.
>>
>> Any idea as to what can cause this and how to get around this issue?
>
>> Sep  1 13:55:11 lb pluto[4366]: "roadwarrior-l2tp"[5] 205.225.241.126
>> #15:
>> Virtual IP XXX.225.241.XXX/32 is already used by '@ravi.telecommand.com'
>
> Are you both connecting from behind the same NAT to the same VPN server?
> Or
> are you connecting from different networks, being NATed to the same IP
> range,
> to the same VPN server?
>
> We are working on trying to fix this issue.
>
> Paul
>


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Kind regards.

Ravi Verma
Chief Executive Officer
Telecommand Software and Services
2210 Plaza Drive, Ste 150
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