Daren Russell wrote: > Hi, > > We have a VPN between two FBSD machines using IPSEC and Racoon. I > managed to put this together a couple of years back with (getting) old > hardware, although I am certainly no expert. One of the machines is > about to be replaced as it is occasionally conking out, and I though I > would try the 5.4 release on the new hardware (both existing machines > are running 4.9) > > I have setup internally the layout and effectively replicated the > configs of both machines (except for the one being 5.4, and a second > running 4.11 instead of 4.9), but I cannot get them talking. The > configs for Racoon/IPSec/psk have been transferred over with zero > changes. The 5.4 machine is using standard IPSEC (not FAST_IPSEC), and > a standard tunnel works fine. It's as soon as IPSec/Racoon is brought > in that it falls over. > > Has anybody got 5.4 <-> 4.11 talking in this config, or does anybody > know of any pitfalls because of kernel changes? > > The only other thing is the 5.4 machine is running amd64. >
Just as a follow up for the archives: I re-installed using the i386 arch (the machine was amd64) and with the exact same config files, the VPN came straight up. I guess there is an issue with running racoon on amd64 at the moment. Maybe this will help anybody else considering this setup. Regards Daren _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
