[Openswan Users] Routing Issue

[Luis Nagaki]

Will do ill report back shortly.. Thanks david



On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:09 PM, David McCullough
<david_mccullough at mcafee.com> wrote:

>
> Jivin Luis Nagaki lays it down ...
>> i do get in the secure log DPD=NONE but i dont think that is the same
>> as dpdaction right?
>
> That means DPD is not active IIRC.
>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Luis Nagaki <luis.nagaki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> i actually found a site that had a howto for an iphone setup. which is
>>> not what i want but i followed it but still nothing works.
>>>
>>> i have in my vpnclient.conf on the client and server side..file
>>> dpdaction=restart_by_peer b/c i have auto=start
>
>
> Ok,  just in case I have missed something,  also add:
>
>    dpddelay = 15
>    dpdtimeout = 30
>
> and see how that goes.
>
>>> when i reboot or restart the service on the client side, the routes
>>> are gone. its not until i reboot the service on the server that the
>>> routes come back =|.. im ALMOST there.. just need to fix this one
>>> thing.
>
> Sounds like you need to get DPD enabled,  and for some reason it isn't.
> Check the openswan logs for the SA established lines and see what is
> negotiated,
>
> Cheers,,
> Davidm
>
>
>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:18 PM, David McCullough
>>> <david_mccullough at mcafee.com> wrote:
>>>> Jivin Luis Nagaki lays it down ...
>>>>> How do i turn it on? Ive looked around for this option w no luck :/
>>>>
>>>> You need to set "dpdaction" to restart_by_peer for any end-points
>>>> with "auto = start", ??and set it to "clear" for any with "auto = add".
>>>>
>>>> The basic idea is that if the end point you are configuring knows the IP
>>>> address of the remote end point, ??then you want restart_by_peer, ??otherwise
>>>> you want clear.
>>>>
>>>> You can change the timesouts for DPD if you want but I would just go with
>>>> the defaults for now, ??see here:
>>>>
>>>> ?? ?? ?? ??http://linux.die.net/man/5/ipsec.conf
>>>>
>>>> Look for dpddelay, dpdtimeout and dpdaction.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Davidm
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:54 PM, David McCullough
>>>>> <david_mccullough at mcafee.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jivin Luis Nagaki lays it down ...
>>>>>>> Ok everything is working..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But.. final thing..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IF i have the clients connected, and i reboot a client... once it
>>>>>>> comes back online the tunnel is created, i can ping the VPN Server
>>>>>>> internally. BUT i can not ping the client UNLESS i restart the ipsec
>>>>>>> service. I dont want to do this everytime i lose a connection etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have dead peer detection enabled ? ??If not that should solve it for
>>>>>> you,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Davidm
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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