[strongSwan] had to manually up a connection

Victor Sudakov vas at sibptus.ru
Tue Mar 10 04:43:47 CET 2020


Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Felipe Polanco wrote:
> > > Does this not cause excessive SAs piling up? I've seen a similar
> > > problem with Strongswan on my side and a MikroTik on the remote side:
> > > too many excessive SAs in "ipsec status" output and in MikroTik's
> > > management console.
> > >
> > > My theory was that each trapped packet causes a new SA to be
> > > attempted/generated until some limit is hit or some resource is
> > > exhausted.
> > Haven't seen that issue.
> > 
> > But you should use reuse_ike SA and reuse_child SA, that avoids duplicates
> > SA for phase one and phase two.
> > 
> 
> What's their equivalent in the old (ipsec.conf) syntax? I could not find
> them in ipsec.conf(5)

There is charon.reuse_ikesa (default already "yes") in
strongswan.conf(5) but no "reuse_child" even there.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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