IPSEC becomes unresponsive

hsb

Current build 22.01 (updated from 2.2.4)

I am having issue on pfsense + hosted on AWS after updating, from 2.2.4 to 22.01, every now and then vpn tunnels stops working and ipsec service cannot be restarted, ipsec is totally unresponsive, i have to reboot the firewall to fix the issue.

I have 50 VPN tunnels running with various sites.

Any help would be appreciated.

mr.ortizx

@hsb I am having the same issue. which a site with lots of site to site vpns setup.

Topogigio

@hsb same issue on pfSense 2.6.0 on VMWARE.

needed a whole pfSense reboot to restore tunnels

ablizno

@hsb
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/172075/my-ipsec-service-hangs/38

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13014

There is some reading for you, If you run pgrep -f charon then kill -9 the PIDs, start IPSEC then restart IPSEC and it will come back up. You can do that as it's less disruptive than rebooting. It is a frustrating issue without much movement.

Topogigio

@ablizno "frustrating"? it's a blocking problem that simply makes pfSense unfit for many scenarios (in fact, all of my firewall scenarios)