[Openswan Users] problem setting up the roadwarriors

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 23 May 2007, TESTVPN R119LNXADM wrote:

> 029 "road-to-gate": cannot initiate connection without knowing peer IP
> address (kind=CK_TEMPLATE)

> conn road-to-gate
>    left=172.16.12.33                      # Gateway's information
>    leftid=@r119-lnx-e01                 #
>    leftsubnet=255.255.0.0/24        #
>    leftrsasigkey=0sAQNn+
>                                                      #
>    rightnexthop=172.16.0.254      # Correct in many situations
>    right=%any                               # Wildcard: we don't know the
> laptop's IP
>    rightid=@r119-lnx-e03             #
>    rightrsasigkey=0sAQPNAN
>                                                     #
>    auto=start                               # authorizes but doesn't start

You changed the auto line without changing the comment.
You need auto=add to "authorizes but doesn't start". You have auto=start
which means "initiate now" but you do not know where to initiate TO (because
the other end is a dynamic ip road warrior).

Paul