[Openswan Users] Error: "initial Main Mode message received on 192.168.23.23:500 but no connection has been authorized"

Jacco de Leeuw jacco2 at dds.nl
Mon Apr 7 09:15:00 EDT 2008


BUI18 wrote:

> Can someone assist with this error?  I am trying to create a site to site
> between a D-Link DIR-130 VPN router and Openswan.

> plutodebug=all

Better use plutodebug=none, as this is unlikely to be a bug in Pluto.

> Apr  6 17:43:51 localhost pluto[20252]: packet from 66.27.113.46:500:
> initial Main Mode message received on 192.168.23.23:500 but no connection
> has been authorized

Apparently the Openswan server is behind NAT so it has the IP address
192.168.23.23 but you are specifying the NAT router's IP address in the
Openswan configuration:

> conn DIR130-JON
> left=66.27.a.b

Jacco
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