IPSec and Racoon between 5.4 and 4.11

Daren Russell darenr at end-design.co.uk
Tue May 17 01:37:29 PDT 2005


Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:51:50 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
> you wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Has anybody got 5.4 <-> 4.11 talking in this config, or does anybody
>>know of any pitfalls because of kernel changes?
> 
> 
> There should not be any issues as I have 90+ RELENG4 boxes deployed
> talking to a 5.4 server and a dozen RELENG_5 boxes talking to 2
> RELENG_4 servers generally with out issue. The one thing we run into
> from time to time is the issue of net.key.prefered_oldsa=1 on
> FAST_IPSEC on RELENG_4.  But other than that, it works.  What issues
> are you running into ?  Did you enable debug logging in racoon ? What
> state do the tunnels get to ? i.e what does setkey -D show ?
> 
I didn't think there should be.

A basic tunnel (without any encryption) works fine.  As soon as
ipsec_enable is set in rc.conf, it fails.

setkey -D shows No SAD entries.

When racoon is restarted, the debug log shows (I believe, I honestly
don't understand half of what it logs!) that the /etc/ipsec.conf entries
are read:

(I'm on a different PC, so this is copied from the screen)
racoon: DEBUG: policy.c:184:cmpspidxstrict(): sub:0x7fffffffe940:
192.168.0.0/24[0] 192.168.1.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out
racoon: DEBUG: policy.c:184:cmpspidxstrict(): db :0x568810:
192.168.1.0/24[0] 192.168.0.0/24[0] proto=any dir=in

with similiar on the second server (althought the IP's are the opposite
way round)

If I start a ping from 192.168.1.254 -> 192.168.0.254, the receiving
machine get's an 'Invalid length of payload' error, whilst the sending
machine is getting an 'phase 2 negotiation failed due to time up waiting
for phase1.  ESP 62.x.x.125->82.x.x.141'  (The ip's shown are what they
should be.)  I can probably transfer entire parts of the log files if
required, but at the moment, both machines are isolated.

A further point I've discovered having left them running for a while, is
the racoon on the AMD64 keeps crashing and dumping core (although I
don't know what to do with that!).  Maybe there is an issue with racoon
on 64bit?  Maybe I should try re-installing with a standard i386 arch.
(Last ditch!)

Both racoon's are 'racoon-2005-0510a' BTW.

Thanks
Daren


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