[Openswan Users] openswan with sonicwall, payload malformed

Aaron Kincer kincera at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 09:14:18 EDT 2007


To clarify, I think it was the other way around. Sonicwall didn't like
Openswan saying "hey, I've got my own IP address here, thank you"

On 10/1/07, paul pantages <pdp at centinasystems.com> wrote:
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> Hello Paul W,
>
> Thank you for the suggestions, unfortunately, upgrading to 2.4.9 did not
> change the behaviour.
>
> I also tried the modecfgpull=yes ( I also tried adding
> leftmodecfgclient=yes ) but no luck with either of these.
>
> I still see the "Mode Config message is unacceptable..."; This might
> indicate that modecfgpull is not going to work?
>
> ipsec verify asked me to turn off "enforced SElinux mode" which I also
> tried.
>
> I will check the Sonicwall f/w version at work Monday.
>
> Thanks again for the suggestions;
>
> PdP
>
> Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, paul pantages wrote:
> >
> >> [root at rigel pdp]# ipsec verify
> >> Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and started
> correctly:
> >> Version check and ipsec on-path                                 [OK]
> >> Linux Openswan U2.4.5/K2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 (netkey)
> >
> > You should upgrade and try this with openswan 2.4.9.
> >
> >> conn myclient
> >>       left=172.16.1.35
> >>       leftsubnet=172.16.1.35/32
> >
> > Leave out the leftsubnet. Otherwise it seems fine.
> > You could try adding modecfgpull=yes?
> >
> >> STATE_MAIN_I3
> >> 108 "myclient" #1: STATE_MAIN_I3: sent MI3, expecting MR3
> >> 003 "myclient" #1: Mode Config message is unacceptable because it is
> for
> >> an incomplete ISAKMP SA (state=STATE_MAIN_I3)
> >
> > Odd. That might to suggest a buggy implementation on the Sonic Wall. Can
> > you see if you are running the latest firmware?
> >
> > Paul
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