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    IPSec Tunnel dies but shows as up still

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 1.2.3-PRERELEASE-TESTING snapshots - RETIRED
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      jsmwalker
      last edited by

      Hi

      Sorry for delay, we had to pull the firewall and go back to 1.2.2 as 99% of the work of one department do is via the site to site VPN, so can't help with any further debugging on this, but certainly the above seems to be what i remember seeing.

      Is that a permanent fix, or does that just re-establish the tunnel which will fail again? (I would guess its just the same as disabling and re-enabling so it will fail again)

      Great product though, hopefully if we can get this sorted I can go back up to 1.2.3 and carry on testing.

      J

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        ankaerith
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        The tunnel promptly dies again after what I assume is the expiration of the current SA.

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          podilarius
          last edited by

          Hey Guys,
          NAT-T is still not working for me in 1.2.3 RC-1 built on Fri Apr 24 19:37:18 EDT 2009. Connects with no problem when NAT-T is disabled. Looks like a time out at phase 1. Anyone else seeing this behavior? Even better, does any one have this working with NAT-T?

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            kapara
            last edited by

            Is anyone having a good experience with IPSEC lan to LAN with 1.2.3?

            Skype ID:  Marinhd

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              ankaerith
              last edited by

              I updated to RC1 and all of my IPSec site-to-site tunnels die and can't recover without restarting IPSec.  Please see my above post for more details.

              I am not using NAT-T.

              I tried enabling dead peer detection.  It didn't help.

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                podilarius
                last edited by

                I have only 1 site to site tunnel. I have to stop and restart ipsec after a reboot, but once I do this, it stays up until next reboot. I think that might have been due to another problem with my provider and a router port problem though that I have only had once. I will find out next time its down. (which might be a very long time)

                Cheers guys.

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                  ankaerith
                  last edited by

                  I finally gave up on the 1.2.3 snapshots.  I rolled back to 1.2.2 and my tunnels came back up and have been rock solid since.  I made zero configuration changes.  I simply pointed the console update URL to the 1.2.2 full upgrade download.

                  1.2.3 had fixed some issues I'd had with some network cards, but those were pretty minor compared to non-functional IPSec.

                  If any developer wants help testing or debugging this issue I'd be happy to reinstall the latest snapshot and work with them on it.  I've got access to PIXs running 6.3.5 and 8.0.4 and a Concentrator 3005.

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                    drees
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                    @kapara:

                    Is anyone having a good experience with IPSEC lan to LAN with 1.2.3?

                    No issues here with 1.2.3 RC1 and Astaro 7.4 with IPsec VPNs.  The Astaro box is even behind a NAT machine (a pfSense box ;-) so NAT-T appears to be working well, too.

                    We just got this particular setup up and running a couple days ago, no issues the entire time so far.

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                      rwalker
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                      Everyone that has posted above needs to update whether they are using parallel tunnels or not (meaning you have more than one network so a tunnel for each network).  This problem existed in 1.2.2 and I am curious whether it has gotten worse or better.

                      Thanks,
                      Roy

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                        drees
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                        @rwalker:

                        Everyone that has posted above needs to update whether they are using parallel tunnels or not (meaning you have more than one network so a tunnel for each network).  This problem existed in 1.2.2 and I am curious whether it has gotten worse or better.

                        I'm using 1.2.3 RC1 in a multi-tunnel setup with no problems for about a week now.

                        The pfSense side has two subnets, the other side (Astaro) has one.

                        The only issue I see is that the IPsec status screen shows the VPNs in state yellow instead of green, and one of the tunnels is missing the source network, yet the tunnels are working fine.  They have been yellow for at least a couple days.

                        See the attached picture.

                        Green is the pfSense endpoint IP.
                        Red is the Astaro endpoint IP.
                        Pink is the Astaro LAN network
                        Blue is the pfSense LAN network

                        Note the missing LAN network in the first listed VPN and how the status is yellow on both.  But both VPNs are functioning properly.

                        IPsec-Status.png
                        IPsec-Status.png_thumb

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                          ankaerith
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                          I am connecting to 3 Cisco PIXs with 6 tunnels.

                          PIX 1: 3 tunnels
                          PIX 2: 2 tunnels
                          PIX 3: 1 tunnel

                          PIX config:
                          crypto ipsec transform-set myset esp-3des esp-sha-hmac
                          crypto map outside_map 40 ipsec-isakmp
                          crypto map outside_map 40 match address outside_cryptomap_40
                          crypto map outside_map 40 set pfs group2
                          crypto map outside_map 40 set peer 1.1.1.1
                          crypto map outside_map 40 set transform-set myset
                          isakmp key ******** address 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255
                          isakmp identity address
                          isakmp policy 42 authentication pre-share
                          isakmp policy 42 encryption 3des
                          isakmp policy 42 hash md5
                          isakmp policy 42 group 2
                          isakmp policy 42 lifetime 86400
                          isakmp policy 62 authentication pre-share
                          isakmp policy 62 encryption 3des
                          isakmp policy 62 hash sha
                          isakmp policy 62 group 2
                          isakmp policy 62 lifetime 86400

                          PFSense:

                          Phase 1:
                          Negotiation mode: MAIN
                          My identifier: MY IP
                          Encryption algorithm: 3DES
                          Hash algorithm: SHA1
                          DH key group: 2
                          Lifetime: 28800
                          Authentication method: pre-shared

                          Phase 2:
                          Protocol: ESP
                          Encryption algorithm: 3DES
                          Hash algorithms: SHA1 , MD5
                          PFS key group: 2
                          Lifetime: 86400

                          Works perfectly on 1.2.2.

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                            rwalker
                            last edited by

                            The issue is only between pfSense <-> pfSense.  Between any other device I have tested it works without a problem (parallel tunnels or not).  I have now upgraded a few of our firewalls to 1.2.3RC1, so will see what happens.

                            Roy

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                              podilarius
                              last edited by

                              Well just tested with NAT-T enabled and mine is now working!!! Thanks guys, truly wonderful.

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                                sigma
                                last edited by

                                At the moment I use 1.2.3 RC2 and have also a similar problem, but not the same as written here. I only have troubles to access over VPN if I'm on the WLAN port. No problems at all on the LAN port. On the other side an old ZyWall 30W is working.

                                I now disabled NAT-T because it's the only hint I found here. So I cann tell more about that tomorrow or so.

                                After a reboot I have again acces over vpn from WLAN for a few hours until it's broken again. And as I told, after it is brolen on WLAN it works fine in LAN.

                                Sigma

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                                  databeestje
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                                  We were trying ipsec-tools 0.8 during that timeframe to fix a number of DPD issues with tunnels not re-negotiating.

                                  This proved to cause lot's of issues with parallel tunnels.

                                  So we backed out the change and went back to 0.7.2. We will be merging 0.7.3 soon which was just released.

                                  It has a few small fixes but unlikely to break things.

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