<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_55834"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56247"><span></span><br></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56246" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">Hi Noel,</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">I
do not know why I am not getting the response in my email Id ( registered with
users list) . Anyway checked the response at </font><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.strongswan.org/msg09148.html"><font face="Calibri">https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.strongswan.org/msg09148.html</font></a><font face="Calibri">.
Thank you for prompt reply.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">Yes,
launched Charon as a root user. I used the followings configuration options</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56245" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56244" style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56243" face="Calibri">./configure
--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-load-tester --enable-ctr --enable-ccm
--enable-gcm --enable-vici --enable-error-notify</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">Thereafter
did make clean && make && make install . I am using the Fedora
release 17.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56254" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56253" style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56252" face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]# cat /etc/issue</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">Fedora
release 17 (Beefy Miracle)</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">Kernel
\r on an \m (\l)</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]#</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56240" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56239" style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56238" face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]# uname -a</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56237" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56236" style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56235" face="Calibri">Linux
sefpdev-1 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56102" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]#</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56234" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56255" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56258" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56257" style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56256" face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]# uname -r</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56261" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56260" style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56259" face="Calibri">3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56264" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56263" style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_56262" face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]#</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]# file /var/run/charon.vici</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">/var/run/charon.vici:
socket</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]#</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]# sestatus</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_55973" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">SELinux
status:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>disabled</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]#</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">Regards,</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font face="Calibri">Chinmaya</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, March 20, 2015 1:00 PM, Chinmaya Dwibedy <ckdwibedy@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7547382818"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Hi
,</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5030" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><font id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5029" face="Calibri"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;">I
am trying to use </span><span id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5028" style="font-size: 12pt;">the swanctl utility (i.e., a command
line application to configure and control charon) (strongswan: 5.2.2) . I configured
the /etc/swanctl/swanctl.conf file (On IKE Initiator end) and then upon trying
to initiate the connection <span> </span>thru #swanctl
--load-conns, it gives the following errors</span></font></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5002" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5001" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5000" face="Calibri">connecting to 'unix:///var/run/charon.vici'
failed: Connection refused</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5033" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5032" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5031" face="Calibri">Error: connecting to 'default' URI failed:
Connection refused</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5036" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5035" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5034" face="Calibri">strongSwan 5.2.2 swanctl</font></span></div><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5037" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5040" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5039" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5038" face="Calibri">I run the #ipsec start command to get the
startup log and found that, creation of VICI socket is getting failed. <span> </span>Can anyone suggest how to resolve this ?</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5041" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5044" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5043" style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font id="yiv7547382818yui_3_16_0_1_1426836234465_5042" face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]# cat /var/log/charon.log | grep vici</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Mar
20 00:00:15 00[LIB] plugin 'vici': loaded successfully</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Mar
20 00:00:15 00[LIB] loading feature CUSTOM:vici in plugin 'vici'</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Mar
20 00:00:15 00[CFG] creating vici socket failed</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Mar
20 00:00:15 00[LIB] feature CUSTOM:vici in plugin 'vici' failed to load</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Mar
20 00:00:15 00[LIB] unloading plugin 'vici' without loaded features</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">[root@sefpdev-1
strongswan-5.2.2]#</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri"></font></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Regards,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">Chinmaya</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman">
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