[Openswan Users] Tunnel fails to start, but nothing logged....

[Andy Gay]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 09:53 +0100, Matthew Claridge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm setting up a vpn tunnel to one of our customers' Cisco Pix 
> firewalls, from a Fedora Core5 system, using OpenSwan-2.4.4-1.1.2.1
> 
> The tunnel is failing to start, but nothing useful is logged:

Where are you looking for the logs? They should be in /var/log/secure on
FC systems.
BTW - you really don't want to set klips/plutodebug=all. You'll get so
much in your logs that you'll probably never find the important stuff.
Comment out or remove those debug lines please.

> 
>      Jul 24 00:12:44 vpn1 ipsec_setup: KLIPS ipsec0 on eth0 
> 62.189.139.60/255.255.255.0 broadcast 62.189.139.255
>      Jul 24 00:12:44 vpn1 ipsec_setup: ...Openswan IPsec started
>      Jul 24 00:12:47 vpn1 ipsec__plutorun: 104 "amextunnel" #1: 
> STATE_MAIN_I1: initiate
>      Jul 24 00:12:47 vpn1 ipsec__plutorun: ...could not start conn 
> "amextunnel"
> 
> This is my ipsec.conf:
> 
> config setup
>         interfaces=%defaultroute
>         klipsdebug=all
>         plutodebug=all
>         nat_traversal=yes
> 
> conn amextunnel
>         type=           tunnel
>         left=           62.189.139.60
>         leftnexthop=    62.189.139.5
>         leftsubnet=     192.168.5.0/24
>         right=          89.234.17.132
>         rightnexthop=
>         rightsubnet=    192.168.201.0/24
>         esp=            3des-sha1-96
>         keyexchange=    ike
>         pfs=            no
>         auto=           start
> 
> 
> The log entries and results are identical whether I use OE or not.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what might be going on, where to start looking or 
> how to get more information out of it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt
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