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      mcury
      last edited by mcury

      Followed the documentation exactly as described here, including timers and everything else.
      https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/ipsec-s2s-psk.html

      SIDE A of the tunnel:
      Responder only
      Close connection and clear SA

      SIDE B of the tunnel:
      Default
      Restart/reconnect

      I tested with and without the Keep Alive option in the first p2 entry at the SIDE B.

      SIDE B keeps with status, connecting.
      SIDE A shows Connect P1 and P2

      The tunnel only establishes if I go to side A and click, Connect P1 and P2.

      Edit:
      Forgot to mention that SIDE A has another tunnels working in Responder only/Restart reconnect, but the remote peers are Mikrotiks.
      So, this is happening only from pfsense to pfsense.

      dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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        mcury @mcury
        last edited by

        Fixed by inverting the roles, I suppose it was something with NAT-T, UDP port 500 unreachable.

        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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