[Openswan Users] Host-to-host VPN creation after hard reboot

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Julien Bonjean wrote:

> I establish a host-to-host VPN (tunnel mode). Considering I have a master a a
> slave. Master is booted first and slave make a boot on lan. Both server use
> 2.4.13 version. On first slave boot, everything is fine, VPN is created. If
> slave ipsec service is shutdown gently before reboot, VPN is well created on
> next boot, but if a hard reboot is done on slave, VPN is not created and
> master ipsec service has to be restarted to re-create VPN. What's the problem
> and are there some workaround ? Thank you.

Not sure if i understand "master" and "slave", but I assume for now you
mean "server" and "client" (or responder and initiator)

Do you have uniqueids=yes in config setup? That should override the
old tunnel info and allow setting up the new one.

Paul