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      bobmc_northernart
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      Hi

      1st posting, hope someone can help here.

      We have been running pfsense as a virtual appliance at a remote site for almost a year with an IPsec link back to our main campus so we can remotely access CCTV, door access systems, etc, and this has been running fine.

      We have recently updated both our pfSense and Smoothwall appliances and now we are unable to access any remote systems (physical or virtual) except the pfSense appliance itself.

      All devices on the remote network ping OK and we can happily access the pfSense desktop (either on the WAN or LAN address) without any problems at all. However, any attempt to access anything else causes the tunnel to drop out and reconnect.

      This is a segment of the logs

      Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[NET] received packet: from <remote_gateway>[500] to <pfsense_wan_address>[500] (68 bytes)
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[NET] <con1000|200> received packet: from <remote_gateway>[500] to <pfsense_wan_address>[500] (68 bytes)
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[ENC] parsed INFORMATIONAL_V1 request 1353737598 [ HASH D ]
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[ENC] <con1000|200> parsed INFORMATIONAL_V1 request 1353737598 [ HASH D ]
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[IKE] received DELETE for ESP CHILD_SA with SPI 17a40464
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[IKE] <con1000|200> received DELETE for ESP CHILD_SA with SPI 17a40464
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[CHD] CHILD_SA con1000{264} state change: REKEYED => DELETING
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[CHD] <con1000|200> CHILD_SA con1000{264} state change: REKEYED => DELETING
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[IKE] closing CHILD_SA con1000{264} with SPIs c3ad4b67_i (5248919 bytes) 17a40464_o (8685640 bytes) and TS <local_network>/22|/0 === <remote_network>/12|/0
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[IKE] <con1000|200> closing CHILD_SA con1000{264} with SPIs c3ad4b67_i (5248919 bytes) 17a40464_o (8685640 bytes) and TS <local_network>/22|/0 === <remote_network>/12|/0
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[CHD] CHILD_SA con1000{264} state change: DELETING => DELETED
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[CHD] <con1000|200> CHILD_SA con1000{264} state change: DELETING => DELETED
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[CHD] CHILD_SA con1000{264} state change: DELETED => DESTROYING
Oct 2 08:57:08 	charon 		09[CHD] <con1000|200> CHILD_SA con1000{264} state change: DELETED => DESTROYING
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		11[CFG] vici client 55 connected
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		11[CFG] vici client 55 connected
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 55 registered for: list-sa
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 55 registered for: list-sa
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 55 requests: list-sas
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 55 requests: list-sas
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 55 disconnected
Oct 2 09:13:53 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 55 disconnected
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		01[CFG] vici client 56 connected
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		01[CFG] vici client 56 connected
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		08[CFG] vici client 56 registered for: list-sa
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		08[CFG] vici client 56 registered for: list-sa
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		01[CFG] vici client 56 requests: list-sas
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		01[CFG] vici client 56 requests: list-sas
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 56 disconnected
Oct 2 09:13:57 	charon 		05[CFG] vici client 56 disconnected

      The IPsec tunnel is configured as below

      Key Exchange Version: IKEv1
      Authentication Method: Mutual PSK
      Negotiation Mode: Main
      Indentifier: IP Address
      P1 Proposal: 3DES/SHA1/DH5/3600 seconds/Disable rekey/NAT = auto/DPD=enabled/Delay=10/Maxfail=5
      P2 Proposal: ESP/3DES/SHA1/PFS Key 5 (1536)/3600 seconds

      AES-NI CPU Crypto is not supported on the virtual appliance

      For completeness, this is a segment of the IPsec logs from the Smoothwall appliance

      08:57:08	CHalls	deleting state (STATE_QUICK_I2) and sending notification
08:57:08	CHalls	ESP traffic information: in=0B out=0B
09:21:55	CHalls	initiating Main Mode to replace #65
09:21:55	CHalls	transition from state STATE_MAIN_I1 to state STATE_MAIN_I2
09:21:55	CHalls	STATE_MAIN_I2: sent MI2, expecting MR2
09:21:55	CHalls	transition from state STATE_MAIN_I2 to state STATE_MAIN_I3
09:21:55	CHalls	STATE_MAIN_I3: sent MI3, expecting MR3
09:21:55	CHalls	Peer ID is ID_IPV4_ADDR: <pfSense WAN address>
09:21:55	CHalls	transition from state STATE_MAIN_I3 to state STATE_MAIN_I4
09:21:55	CHalls	STATE_MAIN_I4: ISAKMP SA established {auth=PRESHARED_KEY cipher=3des_cbc_192 integ=sha group=MODP1536}

      As it was working fine before, I can only assume that one of the updates has caused the issue. A full reboot of the remote host system seemed to restore normal service for a short period but it soon stopped working again.

      Grateful for any suggestions or ideas

      thanks all

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