[Openswan Users] What would cause ipsec auto --up {tunnelname} to hang?

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Greg Scott wrote:

> > The other end might not be responding anymore
>
> I was thinking maybe something like that could be going on.  Both ends
> run the same script, so if the right side is trying to bring up a tunnel
> that the left side doesn't know about yet, this could be a problem.  But
> running by hand, I never saw any hangs, just error returns.

You know  that auto=start should accomplish the same without scripting?

Paul
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