[strongSwan] HA plugin: stopping charon does not remove IKE_SA/CHILD_SA from other nodes

Martin Willi martin at strongswan.org
Mon Mar 2 10:38:35 CET 2015


Hi,

> In that particular configuration (no monitoring/heartbeat) stopping
> charon on the active node should clear the connections on the remote
> gateway (OK) and on the other node (not OK), right?

The active node will delete the IKE_SA, and send a close event to the
passive node.

If you are not using the ha plugin heartbeat, you probably should make
the other node active first (responsible for all IKE_SAs) before
shutting down a node.

Regards
Martin



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