IPSec and Racoon between 5.4 and 4.11

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Tue May 17 04:47:41 PDT 2005


On Tue, 17 May 2005 09:33:40 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
>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.

>
>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!)

Yes, I would try and see if moving to i386 fixes the problem.
Assuming you do have all the configs correct, there is no reason why
it should not work.
>
>Both racoon's are 'racoon-2005-0510a' BTW.

I have only just started using this version last weekend so I am not
sure how good it is, but I suspect its the AMD64 thats at issue if all
your configs are indeed correct.

	---Mike
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