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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My wild guess is that you don’t have the O.S. IPsec part installed (such as setkey command) and therefore it is failing. You can try to recompile adding </span><a href="https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Kernel-libipsec"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#8A0020;background:white'>kernel-libipsec</span></b></a> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>support and if it fails, please provide all the info and logs of your system to be able to figure out the issue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>BR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Users [mailto:users-bounces@lists.strongswan.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kapil Athi<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 6, 2016 4:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> Noel Kuntze<br><b>Cc:</b> users@lists.strongswan.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [strongSwan] ipsec.secrets file is missing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Noel and Carlos. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That's the info i was looking for. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>btw, i am getting the following error, when i am using strongswan in a QEMU PPC- VM (only in VM, not in actual HW)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid #E2E2E2 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt;background:#FAFAFA;margin-left:19.2pt;margin-right:12.0pt'><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.15pt;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#36000C'>Starting strongSwan 5.3.2 IPsec [starter]...<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.15pt;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#36000C'>no netkey IPsec stack detected<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.15pt;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#36000C'>no KLIPS IPsec stack detected<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.15pt;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#36000C'>no known IPsec stack detected, ignoring!<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>can you please explain a little bit more on what exactly is this issue ? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>i have seen a wiki post about this issue in FreeBSD kernel, <a href="https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/1/wiki/FreeBSD">https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/1/wiki/FreeBSD</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>. From the explanation, it seems, i can ignore this.i am not using FreeBSD, so bit curious on what exactly is this and why is it seen ? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#555555'>Known Problems</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#36000C;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.15pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Before <a href="https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/460"><b><span style='color:#8A0020;text-decoration:none'>strongSwan 4.6.0</span></b></a> <a href="https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/IpsecStarter"><b><span style='color:#8A0020;text-decoration:none'>starter</span></b></a> did not use the modular kernel interfaces, thus, when it tried to detect an IPsec stack it failed:<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid #E2E2E2 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt;background:#FAFAFA;margin-left:37.2pt;margin-right:12.0pt'><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:12.15pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#36000C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#36000C'>Starting strongSwan 4.x.x IPsec [starter]...<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:12.15pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#36000C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#36000C'>no netkey IPsec stack detected<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:12.15pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#36000C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#36000C'>no KLIPS IPsec stack detected<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:12.15pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#36000C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#36000C'>no known IPsec stack detected, ignoring!<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;line-height:12.15pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#36000C'>Fortunately, this detection is not really needed on FreeBSD so simply ignore this message.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kapil.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Noel Kuntze <<a href="mailto:noel@familie-kuntze.de" target="_blank">noel@familie-kuntze.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 06.06.2016 15:55, Kapil Athi wrote:<br>><br>> Can somebody tell me, if /etc/ipsec.secrets file will created at compile time or during run time ? if so, can you give me some suggestion on where to look, if the ipsec.secrets file is missing.<br><br>Neither. If your distribution ships with one, it's one created by them, as far as I know. I checked what is in the package that can be found in the AUR, and there's no ipsec.secret.<br><br>It makes no sense to distribute an ipsec.secrets file, because the content of it is to be completely customized by you.<br><span style='color:#888888'><br>--<br><br>Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards,<br>Noel Kuntze<br><br>GPG Key ID: 0x63EC6658<br>Fingerprint: 23CA BB60 2146 05E7 7278 6592 3839 298F 63EC 6658<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>