<![CDATA[Connect Then Disconnects PfSense to Cisco ASA]]>I have an Cisco ASA 5510 firewall terminating out VPN tunnels at least 100 tunnels have been configured and working. I have one in particular that causing me major grief; I reboot my device the tunnel comes call phases pass but then a minute later I get the below message:

racoon: []: INFO: initiate new phase 1 negotiation: <<pfsense host="">>[500]<=><<cisco asa="">>[500]
May 31 11:47:53 racoon: INFO: begin Identity Protection mode.
May 31 11:47:53 racoon: INFO: received broken Microsoft ID: FRAGMENTATION
May 31 11:47:53 racoon: INFO: received Vendor ID: CISCO-UNITY
May 31 11:47:53 racoon: INFO: received Vendor ID: draft-ietf-ipsra-isakmp-xauth-06.txt
May 31 11:47:53 racoon: INFO: received Vendor ID: DPD
May 31 11:47:53 racoon: []: INFO: ISAKMP-SA established <<pfsense host="">>[500]-<<cisco asa="">>[500] spi:4ced60a932f84e6a:f5ecbda0093c2e01
May 31 11:47:54 racoon: []: INFO: initiate new phase 2 negotiation: <<pfsense host="">>[500]<=><<cisco asa="">>[500]
May 31 11:47:54 racoon: INFO: purging ISAKMP-SA spi=4ced60a932f84e6a:f5ecbda0093c2e01.
May 31 11:47:54 racoon: INFO: purged IPsec-SA spi=257290577.
May 31 11:47:54 racoon: INFO: purged ISAKMP-SA spi=4ced60a932f84e6a:f5ecbda0093c2e01.
May 31 11:47:54 racoon: []: INFO: ISAKMP-SA deleted <<pfsense host="">>[500]-<<cisco asa="">>[500] spi:4ced60a932f84e6a:f5ecbda0093c2e01
May 31 11:48:18 racoon: []: INFO: IPsec-SA request for <<cisco asa="">> queued due to no phase1 found.
May 31 11:48:18 racoon: []: INFO: initiate new phase 1 negotiation: <<pfsense host="">>[500]<=><<cisco asa="">>[500]
May 31 11:48:18 racoon: INFO: begin Identity Protection mode.
May 31 11:48:18 racoon: INFO: received broken Microsoft ID: FRAGMENTATION
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: INFO: received Vendor ID: CISCO-UNITY
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: INFO: received Vendor ID: draft-ietf-ipsra-isakmp-xauth-06.txt
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: INFO: received Vendor ID: DPD
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: []: INFO: ISAKMP-SA established <<pfsense host="">>[500]-<<cisco asa="">>[500] spi:b1dd94c5b4f2dbfa:1aed93a858905cda
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: []: INFO: initiate new phase 2 negotiation: <<pfsense host="">>[500]<=><<cisco asa="">>[500]
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: INFO: purging ISAKMP-SA spi=b1dd94c5b4f2dbfa:1aed93a858905cda.
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: INFO: purged IPsec-SA spi=185034929.
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: INFO: purged ISAKMP-SA spi=b1dd94c5b4f2dbfa:1aed93a858905cda.
May 31 11:48:19 racoon: []: INFO: ISAKMP-SA deleted <<pfsense host="">>[500]-<<cisco asa="">>[500] spi:b1dd94c5b4f2dbfa:1aed93a858905cda

I cannot determine if this is the Firewall denying connection or the PFSense dropping the connect after they have established the connection.

Any assistance if greatly appreciated.

thx,

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