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    Racoon won't start

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • D Offline
      DWAyotte
      last edited by

      I have a fresh installed latest snap on vmware where racoon will not start. Here is what is listed in the log.

      Mar 2 14:15:20 racoon: ERROR: fatal parse failure (1 errors)
      Mar 2 14:15:20 racoon: ERROR: /var/etc/racoon.conf:36: ";" syntax error
      Mar 2 14:15:20 racoon: INFO: Reading configuration from "/var/etc/racoon.conf"
      Mar 2 14:15:20 racoon: INFO: @(#)This product linked OpenSSL 0.9.8n 24 Mar 2010 (http://www.openssl.org/)
      Mar 2 14:15:20 racoon: INFO: @(#)ipsec-tools 0.8.0.beta3 (http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net)

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        cmb
        last edited by

        what's line 36 in /var/etc/racoon.conf?

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        • D Offline
          DWAyotte
          last edited by

          encryption_algorithm ;

          I failed to mention I restored my IPSEC settings from v1.2.3 backup.
          I had to go into each of my phase1 and click save. I also had to reset all the Phase2 encryption options, they were reset.

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            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            @DWAyotte:

            encryption_algorithm ;

            I failed to mention I restored my IPSEC settings from v1.2.3 backup.
            I had to go into each of my phase1 and click save. I also had to reset all the Phase2 encryption options, they were reset.

            Did you restore the entire config or just that section?

            Restoring just that section is not likely to work properly if it's from an older config version. Only restoring an entire config from a previous version is supported in that way.

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