Hi,

could you please provide a pcap of such an exchange?
Thanks,
HJ.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:57:53AM +0200, Mitja Mu?eni? wrote:
> 
> Just a quick question if anybody has had the same problem, or contrary, if
> anybody has a success story with SEF. I'm trying to establish an IPsec
> tunnel between OpenBSD 3.9 and Symantec Enterprise Firewall 7.0.4 (NT/2k)
> which is not under my control.
> 
> The negotiation goes through normally, but immediately afterwards the remote
> end sends a "DELETE" notification. The tunnel is still up on OpenBSD's end,
> but no traffic ever reaches the destination.
> 
> The remote end (Symantec) spits out (obfuscated to protect the innocent):
> 
> "VPN packet dropped (213.aaa.bbb.ccc->217.ddd.eee.fff: Protocol=IPSEC-ESP
> spi=0xa0723686): Received IPCOMP packet on a tunnel that was not configured
> for compression (tunnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] <VPN_tunnel_*****>)"
> 
> 
> This error message is funny because as far as I know, OpenBSD does not
> support IPCOMP in automatic IKE through isakmpd. Any idea why Symantec would
> believe that we are sending it IPCOMP traffic?
> 
> 
> I even checked that net.inet.ipcomp.enable=0 - not that I know if it's
> applicable to IPsec at all. I suspect this is a bug in SEF, but can't find
> anything on google or mailing list archives. Nothing special in my
> isakmpd.conf, I have multiple tunnels working to other vendors' VPN peers.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mitja

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