[Openswan Users] Guidance requested for PSK connection ; getting error 789

[Jacco de Leeuw]

John Joseph wrote:

> I am using PSK keys to authenticate , I am facing
> some problems in getting the connection established ,
> I feel I had got wrong on "right" "left" parameter.

Your lefts/rights are alright.

> virtual_private=%v4:10.0.0.0/8,%v4:172.16.0.0/12

192.168.x.x subnets are quite common too. You might
want to add them.

> conn %default
>         type=tunnel
> 
> conn l2tp-psk

I believe that starting from Openswan 2.4.5 you need
type=transport in conn l2tp-psk.

> Nov  8 16:08:16 ispc1 pluto[14846]: packet from
> 86.98.xx.xx:500: initial Main Mode message received on
> 20X.XXX.XX.X:500 but no connection has been authorized

Most of the times this is just a slight mistake in the
configuration somewhere.

Can you check /var/log/messages and see if your l2tp-psk
connection was actually loaded without errors? For instance,
does your ipsec.secrets contain a PSK?

Jacco
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