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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have been trying to get StrongSwan 5.5.3 to rekey the IKEv2 SA, as opposed to the IPsec SA.<br>So far no success. Can someone provide an example ipsec.conf and/or other conf file that<br>shows correct configuration? I tried in ipsec.conf:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>conn %default<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ikelifetime=6m<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> margintime=3m<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> keylife=6m<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> keyingtries=1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> keyexchange=ikev2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> authby=secret<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> reauth=yes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> rekey=yes<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I see periodic rekeying of the IPsec SA but not the IKEv2 SA.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I change reauth=yes to reauth=no then it gets worse and periodically<br>Charon sends an empty (no payloads) CREATE_CHILD_SA packet which<br>the othe IKE naturally rejects as invalid syntax.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried to follow <a href="https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/ExpiryRekey">https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/ExpiryRekey</a>. <br>But I find it somewhat confusing about what goes where. I tried enabling rekey_time <br>in swanctl.conf as well and got the same problem with empty CREATE_CHILD_SA.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>