Hi Paul,<br>   During Rekeying, I got the below error message in openswan<br><br>Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: received Vendor ID payload [RFC 3947] method set to=109<br>Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: enabling possible NAT-traversal with method 4<br>
Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: transition from state STATE_MAIN_I1 to state STATE_MAIN_I2<br>Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: STATE_MAIN_I2: sent MI2, expecting MR2<br>
Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: NAT-Traversal: Result using RFC 3947 (NAT-Traversal): no NAT detected<br>Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: transition from state STATE_MAIN_I2 to state STATE_MAIN_I3<br>
Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: STATE_MAIN_I3: sent MI3, expecting MR3<br><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: packet from <a href="http://172.31.114.226:500">172.31.114.226:500</a>: ignoring informational payload, type UNEQUAL_PAYLOAD_LENGTHS on st==NULL (deleted?)</span><br>
Mar 20 21:49:44 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: packet from <a href="http://172.31.114.226:500">172.31.114.226:500</a>: received and ignored informational message<br>Mar 20 21:49:54 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: discarding duplicate packet; already STATE_MAIN_I3<br>
Mar 20 21:50:04 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #26: ISAKMP SA expired (LATEST!)<br>Mar 20 21:50:04 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: discarding duplicate packet; already STATE_MAIN_I3<br>Mar 20 21:50:14 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #28: IPsec SA expired (LATEST!)<br>
Mar 20 21:50:14 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: discarding duplicate packet; already STATE_MAIN_I3<br>Mar 20 21:50:55 uxcasxxx pluto[7655]: &quot;north-east&quot; #29: max number of retransmissions (2) reached STATE_MAIN_I3.  Possible authentication failure: no acceptable response to our first encrypted message<br>
<br>The problem has got solved after some time, but because of this I ended up in packet loss of considerable time.<br><br>Topology <br>++++++<br><br>DUT( Third party vpn)                   Peer(Openswan)<br>172.31.114.226  ----------------------------------    172.31.114.227<br>
<br>ipsec.conf<br>+++++++<br>        # Debug-logging controls:  &quot;none&quot; for (almost) none, &quot;all&quot; for lots.<br>        # klipsdebug=none<br>        # plutodebug=&quot;control parsing&quot;<br>        # For Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, leave protostack=netkey<br>
        protostack=netkey<br>        nat_traversal=yes<br>        virtual_private=<br>        oe=off<br>        # Enable this if you see &quot;failed to find any available worker&quot;<br>        nhelpers=0<br>        interfaces=%defaultroute<br>
<br>conn north-east<br>    type=transport<br>    left=172.31.114.226<br>    right=172.31.114.227<br>    keyexchange=ike<br>    auto=add<br>    authby=secret<br>    pfs=no<br>    rekey=yes<br>    ikelifetime=30s<br>    keylife=30s<br>
    keyingtries=0<br><br>ipsec.secrets<br>++++++++++<br>172.31.114.226 <a href="http://172.31.114.227">172.31.114.227</a>: PSK &quot;mypresharedkey&quot;<br><br>Please help me to narrow down this problem.<br><br>Regards,<br>
Saravanan N<br><br><br><br>