[Openswan Users] pluto keeps starting keying attempt; tunnels work fine

Nick Howitt n1ck.h0w1tt at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 05:29:34 EDT 2010


roel

For the Draytek dial-out ones, try auto=add rather than auto=route 
(which maybe should really be auto=start but I'm not to sure)

Nick

On 03/11/2010 08:34, Roel van Meer wrote:
> Nick Howitt writes:
>
>> Are the Draytek's set to Dial-in, Dial-out or Both?
> Good one. This one is set to Dial-out, with the "Always on" checkbox
> checked.
>
> Hmm. Probably doesn't work nicely with dpdaction=restart in my config. A
> random check of several routers showed that the ones set to Both don't
> exhibit this problem, and the ones set to Dial-out do.
>
> I'm going to have a better look at this: thanks for the tip, Nick!
>
> Regards,
>
> roel
>
>
>
>> On 03/11/2010 07:59, Roel van Meer wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I have an openswan setup with a number of tunnels to various models
>>> of draytek routers. Configuration is shown below. The tunnels all work and
>>> are stable, as far as I can see. Only in the logs, I keep seeing these
>>> messages over and over again, for each tunnel:
>>>
>>> ---/---
>>> Nov  3 08:02:17 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7308: max number of retransmissions (20) reached STATE_MAIN_I1.  No response (or no acceptable response) to our first IKE message
>>> Nov  3 08:02:17 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7308: starting keying attempt 46 of an unlimited number
>>> Nov  3 08:02:17 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7493: initiating Main Mode to replace #7308
>>> Nov  3 08:02:18 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7309: max number of retransmissions (20) reached STATE_MAIN_I1.  No response (or no acceptable response) to our first IKE message
>>> Nov  3 08:02:18 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7309: starting keying attempt 14 of an unlimited number
>>> Nov  3 08:02:18 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7495: initiating Main Mode to replace #7309
>>> Nov  3 08:04:08 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7330: max number of retransmissions (20) reached STATE_MAIN_I1.  No response (or no acceptable response) to our first IKE message
>>> Nov  3 08:04:08 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7330: starting keying attempt 5 of an unlimited number
>>> Nov  3 08:04:08 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7516: initiating Main Mode to replace #7330
>>> Nov  3 08:04:14 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7341: max number of retransmissions (20) reached STATE_MAIN_I1.  No response (or no acceptable response) to our first IKE message
>>> Nov  3 08:04:14 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7341: starting keying attempt 69 of an unlimited number
>>> Nov  3 08:04:14 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7519: initiating Main Mode to replace #7341
>>> Nov  3 08:04:14 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7333: max number of retransmissions (20) reached STATE_MAIN_I1.  No response (or no acceptable response) to our first IKE message
>>> Nov  3 08:04:14 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7333: starting keying attempt 37 of an unlimited number
>>> Nov  3 08:04:14 polariseer pluto[19762]: "peperstraat" #7527: initiating Main Mode to replace #7333
>>> ---/---
>>>
>>> Could anyone shed some light on why this would be happening?
>>> Since I got a fair number of tunnels, the logs are filling up quite fast this way.
>>>
>>> (At first I thought it was a keylife mismatch, but on the drayteks the
>>> key lifetimes are set to 8 hours for phase 1, and 1 hour for phase 2, which,
>>> if I read the manpage correctly, are the defaults of salifetime and
>>> ikelifetime, respectively.)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> roel
>>>
>>>
>>> Setup:
>>> Slackware 13.1, kernel 2.6.32.23
>>> Openswan version: happens with all tested versions: 2.6.29, 2.6.31,
>>> latest git
>>>
>>> ---/ ipsec.conf /---
>>> version 2.0
>>> config setup
>>>     interfaces="ipsec0=eth1"
>>>     virtual_private=%v4:10.0.0.0/8,%v4:192.168.0.0/16,%v4:172.16.0.0/12,%v4:!10.0.0.0/24
>>>     oe=off
>>>     protostack=klips
>>>
>>> conn peperstraat
>>>           right=188.204.xxx.yyy
>>>           rightsubnet=10.10.8.1/24
>>>           also=general
>>>
>>> conn general
>>>           type=tunnel
>>>           left=87.253.148.33
>>>           leftsubnet=10.0.0.1/24
>>>           authby=secret
>>>           auto=route
>>>           pfs=yes
>>>           ike=3des
>>>           dpddelay=30
>>>           dpdtimeout=150
>>>           dpdaction=restart
>>> ---/---
>>>
>>>
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