On 2018-01-18 23:06:31, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 04:57:14PM -0600, Marc West wrote:
> > I have an iked tunnel between two sites, both 6.2 with two machines at
> > each site running carp and sasyncd. This normally runs flawlessly but
> > there have been several events where tunnel traffic randomly drops. 
> > Sometimes everything reestablishes automatically about 5 minutes later,
> > but in some cases I have had to restart iked/sasyncd which brings all 
> > flows and traffic back up immediately and stays stable again for weeks.
> > 
> > From what I have been able to gather so far, flows and SAs consistently
> > drop from "site A" but are still present on "site B" until the issue
> > corrects itself or iked/sasyncd are restarted at "site B". Logs look
> > about the same each time: routine childsa rekeys leading up to the loss
> > of tunnel traffic, followed by a full ikesa init a few minutes later
> > either on its own or from restarting. But nothing logged at the moment
> > traffic drops.
> > 
> > When this occurs there have not been any underlying connectivity issues.
> > 0% packet loss on MTRs between the machines, normal latency, SSH
> > connections between their public IPs are fine, no carp events.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on tracking this down further would be much appreciated.
> > Sorry for the length but I'm including logs from two separate events
> > below as well as configs.
> > 
> > Also, is there a way to send full iked verbosity to syslog so it can be
> > saved with timestamps?
> > 
> 
> I had similar troubles and found out that my pf ruleset on one of the
> boxes was too strict and only let IPSec traffic out but not in. So when
> the bidirectional state expired half the session died and touching any
> iked normally fixed it. So I would double check that.

Thanks for the suggestion. I triple checked the pf config on both boxes
and all traffic from/to the iked peer IP is permitted. Anything else
come to mind to check?

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