Questions tagged [openswan]
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Replace a Cisco VPN IPSec concentrator with an Ubuntu-box
Is it possible to replace a Cisco VPN IPSec concentrator with Ubuntu and for instance Strongswan?
1) Do Strongswan implement the same protocolls that Cisco uses?
2) Can we retrieve keys from the Cisco concentrator and import them to the Ubuntu-box,…

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Linux routing with gateway in different VLAN
On a hosted environment where we do not have control over the routers all we have is a internal network and a DMZ network and a host in each. In the DMZ is a RHEL server running Openswan and terminating a IPsec VPN tunnel to another site.
The…

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openswan installation
on a Linux machine with kernel 2.6.32, how to enable klips
i found that for enable klips mus enable
CONFIG_KLIPS_ALG=y
in kernel config.
but patch only available for 2.6.23- and for newer kernels, there is no patch. in kernel configs i cant find…

hamedsh
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Ipsec config with openswan
I try to configure Ipsec on server with openswan as client.
But receive error - possible, it's auth error.
What I wrote wrong in config ?
Thank you for answers.
#1: STATE_MAIN_I2: sent MI2, expecting MR2
003 "f-net" #1:…

user90696
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VPN from Windows XP to OpenSwan: correct setup?
Main question is what I am doing wrong in my OpenSwan or L2TP client setup?
I am trying to create a Linux OpenSwan VPN connection from Windows XP machine, using preshared key and the builtin Windows XP L2TP IPsec option.
I have followed the…

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How to clear Openswan logs?
I am a Java developer.
I have been a Linux user for a few years, due to this fact, I was asked to clean up and analyze the disk space of one of our servers.
I came across an 81Gb file called Openswan.log
I would like to clean it, but I have no idea…
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UDP-Packets seem to get lost in IPsec tunnel from Strongswan to AWS cloud - connection works with Openswan
Use case: IOT-device connected through AWS cloud
The IOT-device is behind a router that sends all traffic through aws cloud.
The IOT-server can not be configured and thus is not part of the AWS cloud
For configuration, the IOT-device needs to be…

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Openswan and OpenVPN
I have installed Openswan and have configured IPSec tunnels and they work perfect until i install OpenVPN. Now i can't find out way the ping wont work.
When i execute the "service ipsec status" it gave me that the tunnels are up. But when i try to…

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Openswan stopped writing to /var/log/secure after log deletion
I deleted the log intentionally but it seems like Openswan is not creating a new one on it's own. I tried restarting the service or even creating an empty file. Nothing works.
What can I do besides reinstall?

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