[Openswan Users] openswan-2.6.24rc1 NATed MacOS Kernel crash

[Sven Schiwek]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:47 AM, David McCullough wrote:
> Jivin Sven Schiwek lays it down ...
>> Paul Wouters wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Sven Schiwek wrote:
>>>
>>>> attached you'll find a kernel crash (Kernel 2.6.30.9). It appears  
>>>> when
>>>> a NATed MacOS wants to connect to Openswan with xl2tpd. After the
>>>> crash the Openswan-system is unreachable and I must do a cold  
>>>> restart.
>>>> Has some one else this problem?
>>>> Unfortunately I have no Windows machine so I can't reproduce this  
>>>> with
>>>> a MS Client, sorry.
>>>
>>> I believe David is writing a patch for this exact problem, and  
>>> should
>>> hopefully
>>> be ready in the next few days to be included in openswan 2.6.24  
>>> final.
>>
>> Ah, good to here this. If you or David have/has a patch and need  
>> someone
>> for testing please feel free to contact me.
>
> I committed a patch for this on friday,  looks like I forgot to push  
> it :-(
> I think more changes are needed yet,  but this makes the code work as
> intended without crashing,  not sure if "as intended" gives you a  
> working
> natted-l2tp tunnel yet,  feedback appreciated,

Hi,

thank you for your fast response I have patched my Openswan and the  
first tests are looking fine. I can establish NAT l2tp connections  
from MacOS.

Thanks,
Sven