[Openswan Users] Problems connecting to Sonicwall device

[Rob Moore]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Rob Moore wrote:
> 
>> I've been trying to connect with a Sonicwall device and am not seeing
>> any obvious (to me) errors in the logs. Yet I'm not able to connect to
>> servers on the VPN. I'm new to Openswan, so I could easily be
>> overlooking something. I'm not sure if this is correct, but I've simply
>> configured ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets and run '/etc/init.d/ipsec start'.
>>
>> The output of ipsec barf can be found here for the next 24 hours:
>> http://pastebin.ca/171582. I can repost if desired.
> 
>    leftid=%myid
> 
> remove or change it, since you don't actually set the myid. And it should
> only be used with OE.
> 
> 	auto=route
> 
> use auto=start
> 
> With the latter change, you should be able to actually initiate, and get
> some logs on what is wrong. Right now, openswan did not even try to
> connect.
> 
> Paul
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Thanks, Paul. I have done as you suggested. I'm still not able to 
connect but I'm getting more in the way of messages. In particular, I 
noticed 'INVALID_ID_INFORMATION (18)'.

I've posted the new barf output at http://pastebin.ca/171791.

Rob