[Openswan Users] openswan with sonicwall, payload malformed

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Aaron Kincer wrote:

> Geez. I forgot that xauth ALSO caused that error. Been a while since I went
> down that road.
>
> xauth on Sonicwall does not play well with Openswan. I spent a long time
> trying to get it to work, but never could. I shut it off and it worked.
>
> If turning of xauth fixes it, try turning DHCP back on and see if that works
> for you. It didn't for me.

Openswan does not support "dhcp over vpn". It's a standard that was never
implemented by any major parties. XAUTH should work.

IKEv2 is supposed to address those short comings.

Paul