[strongSwan] NixOS test

[Bas van Dijk]

I noticed that my test succeeds most of the time but I just observed a
test run where carol keeps trying to ping alice but fails each time.
The following line from the test log[1] seems suspect:

carol# [ 4.538963] charon-systemd[716]: received NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN notify error

I haven't looked into this error yet but I suspect it's a concurrency
issue. Note that all machines start up at the same time[2]. I think if
I first start moon, wait for the strongswan-swanctl.service to start
and then start carol it always succeeds. But I rather not introduce
that sequentialism and I suspect that strongSwan should be able to
handle not fully booted gateways and that I just forgot to configure
some option somewhere.

Any ideas why the test sometimes fails?

[1] https://gist.github.com/basvandijk/a2de93d8c93ce925838c1dbf2ee1d925
[2] https://github.com/LumiGuide/nixpkgs/blob/b1bab8cff348ac743ecc6734f1852a16db41a9a2/nixos/tests/strongswan-swanctl.nix#L151

On 30 August 2017 at 11:52, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> The test now succeeds[1].
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Bas
>
> [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nix-devel/X-0T97MLR7I/cGUCWjXQAAAJ
>
> On 30 August 2017 at 02:57, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 30 August 2017 at 02:29, Noel Kuntze
>> <noel.kuntze+strongswan-users-ml at thermi.consulting> wrote:
>>> Two things:
>>> - Please don't pipe stuff from the web into bash, it just asks for trouble and especially don't advertise or advise people to do it.
>>
>> Hi Noel, good point. This should probably be removed from nixos.org/nix.
>>
>>> - Try enforcing UDP encapsulation. If the FW rules actually change something, then currently only IKE is allowed, but there's no NAT, so ESP is used as transport protocol.
>>
>> Something similar was suggested[1] on the nix-devel mailinglist. I
>> will see how to get that to work.
>>
>> Bas
>>
>> [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nix-devel/X-0T97MLR7I/jbPQucPOAAAJ
>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Noel
>>>
>>> On 30.08.2017 02:18, Bas van Dijk wrote:
>>>> I've created a PR for the NixOS Linux distribution that adds a module
>>>> for strongswan-swanctl:
>>>>
>>>>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/27958
>>>>
>>>> Although the new module works on our company VPN I would also like to
>>>> add a NixOS test to ensure it keeps working. I've mimicked one of the
>>>> swanctl tests from the strongswan project:
>>>>
>>>>   https://github.com/LumiGuide/nixpkgs/blob/strongswan-swanctl-test/nixos/tests/strongswan-swanctl.nix
>>>>
>>>> Although SAs get established successfully between gateway moon and
>>>> roadwarrior carol I can't seem to ping alice from carol. Since I'm no
>>>> networking expert I'm probably missing something obvious. It would be
>>>> great if somebody could give me a tip or point me in the right
>>>> direction.
>>>>
>>>> To run the test for yourself you don't need to install NixOS, you only
>>>> need the Nix package manager (which is easy to uninstall later on;
>>>> just rm -r /nix):
>>>>
>>>>   $ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
>>>>
>>>> Then clone my nixpkgs fork and checkout the right branch:
>>>>
>>>>   $ git clone https://github.com/LumiGuide/nixpkgs.git
>>>>   $ cd nixpkgs
>>>>   $ git checkout strongswan-swanctl-test
>>>>
>>>> Look in nixos/tests/strongswan-swanctl.nix to see how to run the test
>>>> but the following should get you started:
>>>>
>>>>   $ nix-build nixos/tests/strongswan-swanctl.nix
>>>>
>>>> Note that I also asked this question on the nix-devel mailinglist:
>>>>
>>>>   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nix-devel/X-0T97MLR7I
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Bas
>>>