[Openswan Users] Trouble figuring out how to connect Openswan client to Cisco VPN

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steven Don wrote:

>> You are most likely not doing l2tp but cisco xauth/modeconfig. Verify this
>> before spending the time on the wrong solution.
> *** That makes a lot of sense. At lease I hadn't even gotten to that part yet.
>
> With the configuration generated by the pcf2os.pl script, the output changes, of
> course. This is what happens:
> ---
> home:~ # /etc/init.d/ipsec start
> ipsec_setup: Starting Openswan IPsec U2.6.21/K2.6.23.11...
> home:~ # ipsec auto --verbose --up tst
> 002 "tst" #1: initiating Aggressive Mode #1, connection "tst"
> 112 "tst" #1: STATE_AGGR_I1: initiate
> 003 "tst" #1: Informational Exchange message must be encrypted

that's probably their "very bad proposal" message.
try looking at the logs of your windows machine if that's possible to
determine the paprameters it uses?

Paul