[strongSwan] Error "no IKE config found" when trying to connect a roadwarrior

[Larsen]

I knew it would be that simple =/
Wouldn´t have thought that all three only speak IKEv1.

Thanks a lot! I will test this the next days.


Lars



On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:07:54 +0100, Andreas Steffen  
<andreas.steffen at strongswan.org> wrote:

> Hi Lars,
>
> The Shrew, iphone and GreenBow clients speak IKEv1 only. Therefore
> you have to configure either
>
>    keyexchange=ikev1
>
> for IKEv1 only or
>
>    keyexchange=ike
>
> for IKEv1 and IKEv2 support.
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas
>
> On 23.02.2013 16:38, Larsen wrote:
>> I am still totally stuck on this. Still get the error "no IKE config
>> found" with multiple clients.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:23:43 +0100, Larsen <larsen007 at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to IPsec and trying to get a roadwarrior connection from a
>>> Windows XP box to work, but I only get the error "no IKE config found".
>>>
>>> I have tried many different settings and looked into even more search
>>> results without luck.
>>> VPN server is strongSwan 5.0.2 on an IPfire 2.13 rc2 where I have
>>> configured all the certificates via GUI.
>>> The user certificate is loaded in the ShrewSoft VPN client.
>>> Out of nescience I simply used the default values where I didn´t
>>> understand something.
>>>
>>> For my ipsec.conf see http://pastebin.com/3XV1S5AK
>>>
>>> # cat /var/ipfire/vpn/ipsec.secrets
>>> include /etc/ipsec.user.secrets
>>> : RSA /var/ipfire/certs/hostkey.pem
>>>
>>> ipsec.user.conf and ipsec.user.secrets are empty beside some comments.
>>>
>>>
>>> On startup of the VPN server I get this warning/error and don´t know if
>>> that is a problem or can be safely ignored:
>>>
>>> Feb 11 16:27:03 atl-ipfire charon: 08[CFG] invalid subnet: vhost:%no,
>>> skipped
>>> Feb 11 16:27:03 atl-ipfire charon: 08[CFG] invalid subnet: %priv,  
>>> skipped
>>>
>>>
>>> Screenshots of my ShrewSoft Client configuration:
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120503_zpscfa99a6c.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120510_zps2b31d8c2.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120513_zps24759140.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120514_zps020b99c2.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120518_zps689e7a6f.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120519_zpsdcbf1bb4.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120521_zpsb50b961a.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120524_zps2e568ced.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120526_zps2b7573b4.png
>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/a587/larsen17/capture_20130214_120529_zps1468d09d.png
>>>
>>> Also tried it with the following instead of "auto":
>>> dh: group 2
>>> cipher: 3des
>>> hash: sha1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When I try to connect, I get the error "no IKE config" in
>>> "/var/log/messages":
>>>
>>> Feb 14 11:03:02 atl-ipfire charon: 10[NET] received packet: from
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500] to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500]
>>> Feb 14 11:03:02 atl-ipfire charon: 10[NET] waiting for data on sockets
>>> Feb 14 11:03:02 atl-ipfire charon: 05[MGR] checkout IKE_SA by message
>>> Feb 14 11:03:02 atl-ipfire charon: 05[MGR] created IKE_SA (unnamed)[2]
>>> Feb 14 11:03:03 atl-ipfire charon: 05[NET] received packet: from
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500] to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500] (3080 bytes)
>>> Feb 14 11:03:03 atl-ipfire charon: 05[IKE] no IKE config found for
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, sending NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN
>>> Feb 14 11:03:03 atl-ipfire charon: 05[NET] sending packet: from
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500] to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500] (40 bytes)
>>> Feb 14 11:03:03 atl-ipfire charon: 06[NET] sending packet: from
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500] to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[500]
>>> Feb 14 11:03:03 atl-ipfire charon: 05[MGR] checkin and destroy IKE_SA
>>> (unnamed)[2]
>>> Feb 14 11:03:03 atl-ipfire charon: 05[IKE] IKE_SA (unnamed)[2] state
>>> change: CREATED => DESTROYING
>>> Feb 14 11:03:03 atl-ipfire charon: 05[MGR] check-in and destroy of  
>>> IKE_SA
>>> successful
>>>
>>> I get the same error when I try to connect with an iPhone or the  
>>> GreenBow
>>> VPN client, so I guess there must be something wrong on the server  
>>> side.
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I fix this? What else can I test?
>>>
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
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