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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have recently started using StrongSwan to connect to an IKEv1/IPSEC vpn on a clients Cisco device.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think I may have a strange issue. Or at least one that I don’t currently understand.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With the righted set to the public IP address of the Cisco device I can bring up the VPN and StrongSwan reports “Connection Established”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I then enter “strongswan status” No SAs are shown. If I try and ping an interesting IP still no SAs are shown.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I then edit the ipsec.conf and change the righted to be the Nat’d address of the Remote Cisco device, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>restart strongswan <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>strongswan status <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I immediately get SAs displayed<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If the system is rebooted I can then no longer connect and have to edit the config back to the public IP, connect and edit/restart strongswan.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any thoughts? Has anyone else experienced this issue?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any advice.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rgds<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br />
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