[strongSwan] issue connecting to fortigate

Tobias Brunner tobias at strongswan.org
Fri Jun 26 10:01:02 CEST 2020


Hi Doug,

> The logs on the strongsan show
> something I'm not used to seeing.  It appears somehow that quickmode
> phase2 is responding on port 500 instead of 4500.

That's normal if there is no NAT between the hosts or the peer has NAT
detection/traversal disabled (strongSwan always has it enabled).  The
switch to 4500 only happens if the initiator detects a NAT.  If there
actually is a NAT between the hosts, make sure to enable NAT-T on the peer.

Regards,
Tobias


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